I'd buy an animal-woman hybrid if they can produce the body of a teenage girl with the brain of say a cat. Catgirls. Available in fine anime-based retail establishments.
Seriously, it has a known, fatal design flaw. Which is fixed. Manufacture date after September 15th or so of this year and you get the Falcon (65nm) chipset which runs cooler. Plus the bigger heatsink assembly has been going out since late July. You're almost a month late or over two months late with your objection depending on which option you feel fixes the issue.
I just don't get why MS didn't jump all over this and fix it immediately and issue a big press release about how awesome they were and so on. Maybe because it wasn't as prevalent a problem as the rabid gamer blog networks made it out to be?
True, but this isn't about a person counterfeiting coins or making novelty coins in the image of the real things (although I'd call that parody, personally). It's a government institution attacking another government institution within the same government.
It's kind of like those Coke Zero commericals where Coke wants to sue itself: rediculous.
It's no wonder they need to turn to astroturfing. As opposed to just making things better.
I guess that's why they call them "the good old days."
There's still a lot of potential in TiVo, but, unfortunately, the company as a whole has gotten kicked around pretty good by analysts and profitability and the whole bean-counter stuff. It'd be neat if a company, one that isn't hanging on by a thread, would snatch it up and really improve things. Faster boxes, huge leaps in hard drive space, un-gimped TiVo-to-Go, etc.
Not sure which came first, ReplayTV or TiVo, but TiVo certainly was the best of class for a while, with other set top boxes were merely TiVo clones. There must be some really f'ed up management out there to had let their strong brand name degenerate like that.
If you look from a price drop perspectivel, though, it's a £50 difference, or over $100 US.
Would I buy a PS3 if it was $100 cheaper without backwards compatibility, keeping in mind that I've already got a PS2, new PS2s are expected to get a price cut to $99 (with full PS2 and most PSX compatibility), and that PS3 backwards compatibility was never that great to begin with?
IMHO, nah, it's still too expensive without enough unique and fun games on it. But the scales on "buy"/"don't buy" wouldn't be pegged so far in the "don't buy" incline. But I could definitely see people pulling the trigger on it.
Al gets permission first even though he doesn't need it.quote>
It also helps that all the parodied songs get a cut of profits. The "polka" mixes pay out residuals literally in preportion to the percentage of the whole track devoted to parodying their song.
Coolio once refused Al a video, but it somehow got mixed up in the translation, and Al got an "okay". That whole "Al gets permission" is an abstraction: his people call the parody target's people and cut the deal. While Coolio may have said no, his people said go ahead. IIRC, Al's people still sends the checks out for his cut of profits and they all get cashed anyway.
The folks who scream the most about their "art" being protected by the First Amendment are the first to scream when someone uses that First Amendment to make fun of them. That Simpsons Hit & Run game was pretty much a GTA 3 clone set in Springfield, with the underground crime syndicates removed for Simpsons storyline institutions. If that game never came out it'd be easier to say this game is just parody.
It's like the developers consistantly entrusted with the brand name have realized they can't make a Simpsons game that doesn't suck so they lifted the gameplay from the massively popular GTA... and no one batted an eyelash at it. Now they've taken it one step further to see if they can lift some premise, too, while they're at it.
But I guess some people think it is better to *look* high performance than to *be* high performance. Good thing he's got that spoiler because I know I can't hit 40 mph without flipping my ride.
A youngin' who lacks the breadth and depth of your experience will need to compromise lest they find themselves out of a job.
Gotta prove you're worth it in experience and what you bring to the table before you start making demands. Thankfully, employ at Free Radical is a pretty good heavyweight on the resume and those working there are very likely to be able to demand overtime pay at their next gig.
I thought 65nm was just around the bend, making this system to be on the shelves for only a few months. As I understand it 65nm process 360's are already out in the wild. Just look for manufacture date after August 24, '07.
So, nobody in Japan ever thought to bring and use a DS or PSP on a plane before today? How come planes weren't dropping out of the sky left and right? All of a sudden they interfere with navigation systems?
Call me nutty, but, wouldn't it just make more sense to shield the instruments better? I mean, EM radiation and potential jamming isn't just something that exists only on the inside of the cabin.
What a waste. Had I stolen the script I would have returned it having made several additions and modifications.
More hearts getting pulled out of chests. Nazis have a new catchphrase: "Uh oh, don't tell the fuhrer!" with a saucy grin. Cameo appearance by Tomb Raider's Lara Croft. Homage to the "Whipmaster" SNL sketch. What's better than the Raiders' big round boulder? Two of them. Two different directions. Blackjack. Hookers. Ahh, forget the whole thing.
In Vino Veritas: The Truth About Blood Alcohol Presumptions in State Drunk Driving Law, 64 New York University Law Review 141, 1989 Clearly based on her body of research she is the more prominent figure in copyright law.
Musta been hoarding. It happens in the US, too. I remember seeing a manager ring up 3 Wiis for a guy at a Best Buy. The dude paid with credit card AND cash. Me thinks the cash went to the manager to hold onto it for him or to sell him more than one.
With how easily you can get one on ebay for over retail price, I wonder if there would be any Wii shortages at all if there weren't any scalpers.
Gee, Sony ONLY sold just over a million PSP's last quarter. How can anybody justify developing games for a platform that only has several million users? When the leading platform is several dozen million users over one platform's several million users, and development costs are comparable (most development costs today aren't in the actual programming of a platform but instead in the creation of assets to be used within the game), justifying NOT developing for a non-leading platform is just a bean-counter's cost benefit analysis away.
It's a shame, but, thankfully, there are some pretty cool bean-counters out there whose organizations they represent are committed to bringing out cool stuff for the PSP. I'm pulling the trigger on a PSP myself soon... that Final Fantasy Tactics remake pushed me over the edge.:)
Standing up for one's moral convictions is now silly? How far we've fallen... The point was: what's the alternative? Really, I hope the "how far we've fallen" applies to the western world simply allowing a manufacturing mono-culture to exist in China of all places.
Which, I suppose, was the point of ask.slashdot.org, to ask knowledgeable folks and find an alternative morally compatible laptop to the Thinkpad.
The judges were blinded to the obviousness of it by the bright reflections of light off of the precious metals combined with the dilation of their pupils at the vast sums of money they were being paid off with.
The tweaks, improvements, and extensions that they make to the OS and other applications become available, and that helps make the software that we all use better in the long run. When was the last time you saw a patch submitted by Canon or Tivo or any of the other companies that continually mooch? They do the minimum requirement to satisfy GPL which is make the source available. Their improvements are there, but, how do you find them? How many of them are true improvements or just hacks specially designed for their marketed product?
And the freedom to modify the code running on the device you bought? When was the last time any consumer device went ahead and let you upgrade it's OS (in a way that wasn't a hack or involved JTAG pads).
If these guys were in the warez world, we'd call them leeches and lamers. I'd say using Linux as a foundation for your product and then not building in support for Linux in that product is worse than just using a closed-source foundation and not supporting Linux anyway.
But why should a company support linux just because their gadget has linux running inside it? Because they are benefiting from a mature, open source, and well understood pre-established operating system. If there was no Linux they would have to spend much more development costs in building their own OS for their devices.
I liked the prayer on top of SQLite, actually, for this very reason. Here it is:
** May you do good and not evil. ** May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others. ** May you share freely, never taking more than you give. Emphasis mine.
Chicagoans should go out of their way to act "suspicious" My waxed moustache, beady eyes, large top hat, sneering voice and unfortunate hunchback are all available if you want to fly me in to Chicago. You know, after I steal the orphanage money provided some meddling kids don't try to stop me.
Everything needs a solid number next to it, if not then it isn't there. That is correct, jellomizer (103300).
Personally, I (993327) have never felt so accepted in all my life. These people looked deep into my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined.
. . . they think it's amusing to kick around a mentally incompetent person. Don't be tricked: mentally incompetent or not he's still dangerous as long as he is consulted for interviews in which he can spew ignorance and has the ear of lawmakers to which he can spew FUD.
From TFA:
However, Corran believes that the Spanish team's procedure needs to be developed further. "They still do part of the assay in a normal plate. Until the whole thing can be done on a CD it doesn't have a great technical advantage." Meaning there is no Hacked CD Drive Biochemical Scanner, there's a Hacked CD Drive component to a Biochemical Scanning System.
I'd be willing to give up my last 5.25" bay if I could use it to give me the secret cheeto powder recipe.
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True, but this isn't about a person counterfeiting coins or making novelty coins in the image of the real things (although I'd call that parody, personally). It's a government institution attacking another government institution within the same government.
It's kind of like those Coke Zero commericals where Coke wants to sue itself: rediculous.
I guess that's why they call them "the good old days."
There's still a lot of potential in TiVo, but, unfortunately, the company as a whole has gotten kicked around pretty good by analysts and profitability and the whole bean-counter stuff. It'd be neat if a company, one that isn't hanging on by a thread, would snatch it up and really improve things. Faster boxes, huge leaps in hard drive space, un-gimped TiVo-to-Go, etc.
Not sure which came first, ReplayTV or TiVo, but TiVo certainly was the best of class for a while, with other set top boxes were merely TiVo clones. There must be some really f'ed up management out there to had let their strong brand name degenerate like that.
So, in other words...
1) Solve scarcity
2) ???
3) Not profit?
I'm unsettled by this. Excuse me while go have my lobes stroked.
If you look from a price drop perspectivel, though, it's a £50 difference, or over $100 US.
Would I buy a PS3 if it was $100 cheaper without backwards compatibility, keeping in mind that I've already got a PS2, new PS2s are expected to get a price cut to $99 (with full PS2 and most PSX compatibility), and that PS3 backwards compatibility was never that great to begin with?
IMHO, nah, it's still too expensive without enough unique and fun games on it. But the scales on "buy"/"don't buy" wouldn't be pegged so far in the "don't buy" incline. But I could definitely see people pulling the trigger on it.
It also helps that all the parodied songs get a cut of profits. The "polka" mixes pay out residuals literally in preportion to the percentage of the whole track devoted to parodying their song. Coolio once refused Al a video, but it somehow got mixed up in the translation, and Al got an "okay". That whole "Al gets permission" is an abstraction: his people call the parody target's people and cut the deal. While Coolio may have said no, his people said go ahead. IIRC, Al's people still sends the checks out for his cut of profits and they all get cashed anyway.
It's like the developers consistantly entrusted with the brand name have realized they can't make a Simpsons game that doesn't suck so they lifted the gameplay from the massively popular GTA... and no one batted an eyelash at it. Now they've taken it one step further to see if they can lift some premise, too, while they're at it.
A youngin' who lacks the breadth and depth of your experience will need to compromise lest they find themselves out of a job.
Gotta prove you're worth it in experience and what you bring to the table before you start making demands. Thankfully, employ at Free Radical is a pretty good heavyweight on the resume and those working there are very likely to be able to demand overtime pay at their next gig.
So, nobody in Japan ever thought to bring and use a DS or PSP on a plane before today? How come planes weren't dropping out of the sky left and right? All of a sudden they interfere with navigation systems?
Call me nutty, but, wouldn't it just make more sense to shield the instruments better? I mean, EM radiation and potential jamming isn't just something that exists only on the inside of the cabin.
What a waste. Had I stolen the script I would have returned it having made several additions and modifications.
More hearts getting pulled out of chests.
Nazis have a new catchphrase: "Uh oh, don't tell the fuhrer!" with a saucy grin.
Cameo appearance by Tomb Raider's Lara Croft.
Homage to the "Whipmaster" SNL sketch.
What's better than the Raiders' big round boulder? Two of them. Two different directions.
Blackjack. Hookers. Ahh, forget the whole thing.
In Vino Veritas: The Truth About Blood Alcohol Presumptions in State Drunk Driving Law, 64 New York University Law Review 141, 1989 Clearly based on her body of research she is the more prominent figure in copyright law.
With how easily you can get one on ebay for over retail price, I wonder if there would be any Wii shortages at all if there weren't any scalpers.
It's a shame, but, thankfully, there are some pretty cool bean-counters out there whose organizations they represent are committed to bringing out cool stuff for the PSP. I'm pulling the trigger on a PSP myself soon... that Final Fantasy Tactics remake pushed me over the edge.
I think your giant string-concatenating code makes baby Blaise Pascal cry.
Which, I suppose, was the point of ask.slashdot.org, to ask knowledgeable folks and find an alternative morally compatible laptop to the Thinkpad.
The judges were blinded to the obviousness of it by the bright reflections of light off of the precious metals combined with the dilation of their pupils at the vast sums of money they were being paid off with.
And the freedom to modify the code running on the device you bought? When was the last time any consumer device went ahead and let you upgrade it's OS (in a way that wasn't a hack or involved JTAG pads).
If these guys were in the warez world, we'd call them leeches and lamers. I'd say using Linux as a foundation for your product and then not building in support for Linux in that product is worse than just using a closed-source foundation and not supporting Linux anyway.
I liked the prayer on top of SQLite, actually, for this very reason. Here it is: ** May you do good and not evil.
** May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others.
** May you share freely, never taking more than you give. Emphasis mine.
Personally, I (993327) have never felt so accepted in all my life. These people looked deep into my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined.
I'd be willing to give up my last 5.25" bay if I could use it to give me the secret cheeto powder recipe.