This seems like it's ripe for abuse by people trying to drive web traffic to their sites. If the signal to noise ratio doesn't get out of hand almost instantly, I'll be surprised.
From the article:
"The spokesman said a subsidized Zune is only one of a series of "wild ideas" being considered by the company's entertainment and devices division..."
How about making the device more useful as a wild idea? Microsoft's ultimate sin is that they're lazy and cheap. They'd rather loose the franchise then spend the time and programmer resources to add features that people would find compelling.
For starters, how about wireless syncing, web browsing, having an Outlook client, and being able to read Hotmail mail? Removing a ton of the DRM crap would also be nice. What? the music companies won't play ball? &*(%ing buy one of them and throw management out on its ear. You've got more cash than most 3rd world nations./grump off
We clearly need a way to be able to safely peruse the web while driving. Something like a heads up display, a monocle display or text to speech/voice control.
Any ideas?
There's going to be so much furniture flying around Ballmer's office next week that the help is going to think there's a poltergeist... or that he's possessed.
Hey, now there's an explanation for Microsoft's behavior: the Devil made them do it.
Not to mention Sony's decision to include Blu-Ray means that it is the gaming public that pays the high early adopter hardware costs. Stand alone consumer units will be a *lot* cheaper to produce because of the suckers ^H^H^H^H^H noble gaming public.
Dude, that is the funniest thing I've read in a long, long time. You ought to register; you'd kick the shit out of the iceholes currently getting the +5 humor points.
Holy sheep shit! This appears to be a sorry slow-motion train wreck of a game. Unless there's the mother of all hot coffee mods hiding in that code somewhere, this is going to be Rockstar's swan dive into obscurity.
On the other hand a Beowulf cluster of these might bore JT to death, so it might do some good after all.
I'm just glad we didn't have to see nude Vet60 Bonobo Fencing at the Summer Nationals last week. Plus they would have had to drug test for Mycoxafloppin.
Just think, I could take my laptop with me while camping! Too, with all that nasty methanol the fuel cell would make a nifty self defense weapon. I fully expect to see signs in all national parks saying "Please don't immolate the bears."
It's not simply money. All the elected officials I've met are sensitive to public outrage.
If a senator gets told by his staff that hundres of letters are arriving in their office about a particular subject, they start to think it's important to their constituants.
The key word here is hundreds. It doesn't take a huge total number of letters for an issue to pop above the noise floor.
their congressmen and demanded that they deal with the mad dogs that are the RIAA, they'd geek in about 20 seconds. We need to speak up and put an end to this insanity.
"And 64k was supposed to be more than anyone would ever need."
It was. On my IMSAI 8080 24K was more than enough to load 8K BASIC *and* StarTrek via paper tape reader. And we liked it.
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This seems like it's ripe for abuse by people trying to drive web traffic to their sites. If the signal to noise ratio doesn't get out of hand almost instantly, I'll be surprised.
I think it would be far funnier if your first job in the game was to meet with the lawyer and make him take his meds.
Lucas messed up big time by not making Jar Jar Binks turn out to be a dark lord of the Sith.
From the article: "The spokesman said a subsidized Zune is only one of a series of "wild ideas" being considered by the company's entertainment and devices division..." How about making the device more useful as a wild idea? Microsoft's ultimate sin is that they're lazy and cheap. They'd rather loose the franchise then spend the time and programmer resources to add features that people would find compelling. For starters, how about wireless syncing, web browsing, having an Outlook client, and being able to read Hotmail mail? Removing a ton of the DRM crap would also be nice. What? the music companies won't play ball? &*(%ing buy one of them and throw management out on its ear. You've got more cash than most 3rd world nations. /grump off
To quote Billy Preston's song: "Nothing from nothing leaves nothing."
God I love it when geeks talk dirty.
I know (and fence) with Dave at ASU and discussed this subject a few months ago. This was not government funded.
Great. I point out a real live fact and get modded flamebait. F'n wonderful.
Are these real events or made up ones, like in previous years?
The only induction stove requirement for cookware is that it needs to be iron or steel. Aluminum cookware won't heat.
We clearly need a way to be able to safely peruse the web while driving. Something like a heads up display, a monocle display or text to speech/voice control. Any ideas?
Fixed that for you, buddy.
Hey, now there's an explanation for Microsoft's behavior: the Devil made them do it.
Sweet dude, the moderators took it seriously. Hahahahahahahahahahaha.
Not to mention Sony's decision to include Blu-Ray means that it is the gaming public that pays the high early adopter hardware costs. Stand alone consumer units will be a *lot* cheaper to produce because of the suckers ^H^H^H^H^H noble gaming public.
You just gotta love a meaningless graph with a bunch of undefined data points. It forms a soothing oasis for the mind.
Dude, that is the funniest thing I've read in a long, long time. You ought to register; you'd kick the shit out of the iceholes currently getting the +5 humor points.
Shit dude, two words for you: Electrical Tape.
Holy sheep shit! This appears to be a sorry slow-motion train wreck of a game. Unless there's the mother of all hot coffee mods hiding in that code somewhere, this is going to be Rockstar's swan dive into obscurity. On the other hand a Beowulf cluster of these might bore JT to death, so it might do some good after all.
I'm just glad we didn't have to see nude Vet60 Bonobo Fencing at the Summer Nationals last week. Plus they would have had to drug test for Mycoxafloppin.
Just think, I could take my laptop with me while camping! Too, with all that nasty methanol the fuel cell would make a nifty self defense weapon. I fully expect to see signs in all national parks saying "Please don't immolate the bears."
It's not simply money. All the elected officials I've met are sensitive to public outrage.
If a senator gets told by his staff that hundres of letters are arriving in their office about a particular subject, they start to think it's important to their constituants.
The key word here is hundreds. It doesn't take a huge total number of letters for an issue to pop above the noise floor.
their congressmen and demanded that they deal with the mad dogs that are the RIAA, they'd geek in about 20 seconds. We need to speak up and put an end to this insanity.
"And 64k was supposed to be more than anyone would ever need." It was. On my IMSAI 8080 24K was more than enough to load 8K BASIC *and* StarTrek via paper tape reader. And we liked it.