This will appeal to geeks and hackers but 99.9% of the rest of the world will never, ever get this on their radar. This is so like another console from a few years back (Gizmondo?) that looked like an old-skool gamers dream machine with GPS and whatever else thrown in the mix but ultimately it died a death as it really wasn't of interest to the mass market. Also, its flexibility is its downfall - Joe public won't be able to work out what it is for - it's too much of an 'everything plus the kitchen sink' device.
I'm so glad someone said this. I've never got the Seinfeld thing. I tried to watch a few shows but thought they were embarassingly bad and unfunny. Normally I'd have just written them off as being American (I'm not) 'humour' and therefor not for me but loads of people in my country used to rate it too so I thought I was probably missing something fundemental. I'll have to look for some of his standup as you say that's much better.
The mission statement on the website says:
We, the men and women of the Sheboygan Police Department, value:
* Human Life
* Accountability
etc.
Do they *really* need to state they value human life? Is there an assumption that the norm is to not care who dies? What sort of crazy department is that?
>Web Site Administrator / Officer John Winter
>Phone: 459-3341 / Email: jwinter@sheboygan.wi.us
I'd have kept quiet about his role if I had this site to look after.
>When you date up to 4 other atoms at a time, there's something seriously flawed with that.
I can't see anything wrong with dating 4 atoms at a time as long as you keep them seperate. OTOH, if you start going for kinky games like dating molecules, then it's getting wierd.
I know an fair few PC gamers - a dozen or so. All but 1 wouldn't even know what DRM is. They don't hang out on slashdot, gamer sites etc or get involved in the Internet Zeitgeist of people wrining their hands about how terrible the DRM in game x is. They but their PC 'What PC Game' magazine, go to their fav. bricks and morter shops and buy the game - sometimes they'll use Amazon.
Maybe I know a very skewed demographic but I'd suggest that the % of gamers who care about such things as DRM is actually quite small.
Recently there was lot of UK press about someone being made to cough up £16K for sharing MP3s. What the press omitted to say was that Davenport Lyons wrote to thousands of people saying 'You owe us £6K for piracy!'. Almost everyone wrote back and said 'No we don't, prove it'. DL did no more. The rest of the recipients ignored the letter and in the case in question, the person didn't even bother to turn up at court so got the full amount of £6K plus £10K costs against them.
I suspect they know damn well all they have is some basic data and not enough for any sort of solid case. Did they have entire files? Did the file signatures match known cheksums of copyright files? Were the connections wireless and unencrypted? Are there multiple users on a single PC etc. etc.
Most people dont have 50 game wide libaries, some have max 10. Personally I think the Wii is fine for that sort of consumer.
I don't have the exact stats to hand but the vast majority of Wii owners apparantly just buy the basic console with Wii sports and never buy another game. Some people buy one or two. Very few have any sort of library. As a result, despite its market penetration, it's a brave company that spends a lot of money on developing a Wii title.
Wii being underpowered in terms of hardware, which discourages multiplatform development.
A friend in the games industry tells me they use the same assets (graphics data, audio etc) when developing 360/PS3 games but have different sets shared between PSP/Wii.
>it was 536.2GB
Your ISP must hate you! In the UK, BT sell broadband to the ISPs by data volume but the ISPs package it up and sell it on as fixed price based on caps (mine has just been increased from 20 to 25Gb/month). The very few who are brave enough to offer unlimited are taking a risk that most people don't actually use that much.
>Even with known PIRA terrorists
But they're not terrorists, they're just good citizens fighting the oppressors. Oh, hang on, that's what all the other ones say they are too. Hmm...
>When my car was broken into, I was told by the responding police officer that I might have prevented it
>by keeping my seats and visible areas clear of junk
Isn't this an insurance requirement in the US? AFAIK it's a standard insurance requirement in the UK, at least for when stuff is stolen/from/ your car. If the item wasn't locked in the trunk or in the glovebox then your insurance won't pay out.
The more stories I read like this, the more grateful I am that I don't work in the US. The whole mindset when it comes to employment T&Cs seems like something out the dark ages.
I'ts bad enough that the employers treat staff badly but so many people seem to support that say ing get another job if you don't like it - what if all employers behave badly?
I'm guessing not many people will want one of these on their lap without heat resistant underpants so are they bundling a few pairs of (Lenova branded) heat-resistant undies?
Are these things just remotely controlled or fully autonomous? I'm not sure which sounds worse safety wise but the idea of any fully autonomous system 'with weapons' strikes me as a bad move, not in any sort of T2 way, just that things will go wrong sometimes, no system is 100% perfect. (calm down Mac fans;-) )
Every book on this area I've ever read says that the part of the brain that is responsible for cause/effect doesn't wire up properly until you're 18 and that's why teens/kids do dumb stuff. Has that one been thrown out as wrong now?
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Geeky or just a desperate attempt at justifying an anniversary that makes no sense?
This will appeal to geeks and hackers but 99.9% of the rest of the world will never, ever get this on their radar. This is so like another console from a few years back (Gizmondo?) that looked like an old-skool gamers dream machine with GPS and whatever else thrown in the mix but ultimately it died a death as it really wasn't of interest to the mass market. Also, its flexibility is its downfall - Joe public won't be able to work out what it is for - it's too much of an 'everything plus the kitchen sink' device.
>Right off the bat I think of Grace Hopper.
About time too. I'm amazed so many posts went up before someone namechecked her.
I'm so glad someone said this. I've never got the Seinfeld thing. I tried to watch a few shows but thought they were embarassingly bad and unfunny. Normally I'd have just written them off as being American (I'm not) 'humour' and therefor not for me but loads of people in my country used to rate it too so I thought I was probably missing something fundemental. I'll have to look for some of his standup as you say that's much better.
The mission statement on the website says:
We, the men and women of the Sheboygan Police Department, value:
* Human Life
* Accountability
etc.
Do they *really* need to state they value human life? Is there an assumption that the norm is to not care who dies? What sort of crazy department is that?
>Web Site Administrator / Officer John Winter
>Phone: 459-3341 / Email: jwinter@sheboygan.wi.us
I'd have kept quiet about his role if I had this site to look after.
Oh well played Sir!
>When you date up to 4 other atoms at a time, there's something seriously flawed with that.
I can't see anything wrong with dating 4 atoms at a time as long as you keep them seperate. OTOH, if you start going for kinky games like dating molecules, then it's getting wierd.
>OK, may I do want to be a pedant. :) :-)
I think you'll find that's "OK, maybe..."
I'm one too
I know an fair few PC gamers - a dozen or so. All but 1 wouldn't even know what DRM is. They don't hang out on slashdot, gamer sites etc or get involved in the Internet Zeitgeist of people wrining their hands about how terrible the DRM in game x is. They but their PC 'What PC Game' magazine, go to their fav. bricks and morter shops and buy the game - sometimes they'll use Amazon.
Maybe I know a very skewed demographic but I'd suggest that the % of gamers who care about such things as DRM is actually quite small.
Oh, and it was a game, not MP3s, my bad.
http://torrentfreak.com/uk-game-piracy-the-propaganda-the-evidence-and-the-damages-080821/
Recently there was lot of UK press about someone being made to cough up £16K for sharing MP3s. What the press omitted to say was that Davenport Lyons wrote to thousands of people saying 'You owe us £6K for piracy!'. Almost everyone wrote back and said 'No we don't, prove it'. DL did no more. The rest of the recipients ignored the letter and in the case in question, the person didn't even bother to turn up at court so got the full amount of £6K plus £10K costs against them.
I suspect they know damn well all they have is some basic data and not enough for any sort of solid case. Did they have entire files? Did the file signatures match known cheksums of copyright files? Were the connections wireless and unencrypted? Are there multiple users on a single PC etc. etc.
I don't have the exact stats to hand but the vast majority of Wii owners apparantly just buy the basic console with Wii sports and never buy another game. Some people buy one or two. Very few have any sort of library. As a result, despite its market penetration, it's a brave company that spends a lot of money on developing a Wii title.
A friend in the games industry tells me they use the same assets (graphics data, audio etc) when developing 360/PS3 games but have different sets shared between PSP/Wii.
>it was 536.2GB
Your ISP must hate you! In the UK, BT sell broadband to the ISPs by data volume but the ISPs package it up and sell it on as fixed price based on caps (mine has just been increased from 20 to 25Gb/month). The very few who are brave enough to offer unlimited are taking a risk that most people don't actually use that much.
>Even with known PIRA terrorists
But they're not terrorists, they're just good citizens fighting the oppressors. Oh, hang on, that's what all the other ones say they are too. Hmm...
>When my car was broken into, I was told by the responding police officer that I might have prevented it /from/ your car. If the item wasn't locked in the trunk or in the glovebox then your insurance won't pay out.
>by keeping my seats and visible areas clear of junk
Isn't this an insurance requirement in the US? AFAIK it's a standard insurance requirement in the UK, at least for when stuff is stolen
The more stories I read like this, the more grateful I am that I don't work in the US. The whole mindset when it comes to employment T&Cs seems like something out the dark ages.
I'ts bad enough that the employers treat staff badly but so many people seem to support that say ing get another job if you don't like it - what if all employers behave badly?
What, apart from all those other laptops that have offered SLI for a year or more?
I'm guessing not many people will want one of these on their lap without heat resistant underpants so are they bundling a few pairs of (Lenova branded) heat-resistant undies?
Are these things just remotely controlled or fully autonomous? I'm not sure which sounds worse safety wise but the idea of any fully autonomous system 'with weapons' strikes me as a bad move, not in any sort of T2 way, just that things will go wrong sometimes, no system is 100% perfect. (calm down Mac fans ;-) )
They always used to be called pilotless which is
A) Accurate
B) keeps the PC idiots at bay.
Ah bless, so good to see people with 'special needs' allowed to post here.
Every book on this area I've ever read says that the part of the brain that is responsible for cause/effect doesn't wire up properly until you're 18 and that's why teens/kids do dumb stuff. Has that one been thrown out as wrong now?