IIRC, a lot of Redbox machines are owned and operated by individuals, who go can, if they want to, go to Wal-Mart and buy X number of said video, and stock the machine if they want.
Oh no, he's helping the terrorists by showing them what a reactor looks like and how it works. The Iranian people can use that to build 100billion teratons of nukes to kill stuff. Hang him.
Have you never been to a store around this time of year and looked at the DVD sections? That is one of the first sections that get destroyed by the soccer moms.
When companies would hand out free computers to anyone who asked, but they were so ad laden they were unusable? Or stopped whatever it was you were doing to play some sort of video for 30 seconds? Nothing is free.
Same here. I tried Bing after it came out. I did a comparison of searches for things that are relevant for me, it seemed that both engines returned the same top 20 results. Bing search result pages had more flash and annoying ad types, thus making me stay with Google. In no way was my comparison scientific, but I don't care. It was relevant to me. I do understand that it may have changed a lot in the past few months, but when your first step is in shit, it's hard to take another step.
And MS have given fair warning for up to two months prior to this being launched. If they didn't want the update, they could have just disconnected and not gotten the update.
Warning, this update will ban your console if it is modded, do you want it? How much more warning to those people need?
The house won't have to do anything. In order to get a TV sold in California, it must meet the power consumption. Manufacturers aren't going to produce a California TV and a US TV. It will be the same, and it will be sold everywhere, because of California. Thank you California for your crappy draconic regulations on everything that spreads to everything else in the US. Lead free solder in consumer products, thank you California.
I would love if California left the Empire. I could do with better quality items that don't have to meet California's draconic regulations just to be sold in the rest of the country. Crappy solder in your electronics, thank California for that. Stickers on everything that says it will give cancer to 1:1000000 lab rats when the carcinogenic item injected in the brain and may do the same to you, thank California for that. We would love to get rid of that bloated state and the yearly fires that soak up federal monies and resources.
Ya, Cause GWB told the Louisiana government how to spend the federal money sent to them. Oh, and what about Mr. Clinton? Did he stand up for 8 years demanding the NO levees be reinforced to handle a Cat5? It's not the president's responsibility to tell states how to spend money. It's congress critters that do that.
Since it is based on DnD, they should really only have to ask WoTC for permission to do it. Everyone else would get a notice in a trade industry publication stating, "Looking for all 3rd party rights holders for said IP. You have until 20xx to speak up, or your claimed rights to said property are forfeit for said new imaging of said property, as per current IP holder."
I don't know what kind of copy you bought. I got mine from D2D, got the 2 "free" DLCs and I bought Warden's Keep, all day one. I then proceded to to play the game, all while disconnected from the interwebs without any issue, AND use the DLC without any issue.
I hope they realized that a large portion of gamers don't all have tiny Japanese school girl hands? Even with my original DS, it can be a hand cramper to hold when using the stylus and playing.
Laptops are expected to be able to do the SAME thing as your desktop though(with the exception of high end current games), in portable form. Take the same tech and shrink it, it will cost more.
Very good point on the accident from the driver's ed. It doesn't just apply to traffic though. There are no "accidents." Affects have causes. Fall down the stairs? Not an accident; you were moving too fast, not holding on, had the wrong socks on, don't have the balance or physical strength to navigate them anymore, whatever. Get hit in the face playing basketball and break your nose? Not an accident; a choice was made to be in the play area and that has inherent dangers. You slid off the road while stopped at a red light cause of ice? Not an accident; unfortunate series of events, but no accident. Life is hard and full of actions/reactions, not all of which are favorable.
It speaks volumes about the OEM Vendor that people need to download something deCRAPifier, which is quite popular, to make the computer not suck out of the box.
Offer a service to REMOVE all that junk for you when you buy it, for almost $100. That's the crazy part.
We bought my dad a laptop at Circuit City a few years back for Christmas, and the Firedog(sic?) tech was very persistent that we purchase the removal plan from them, as it's hard to do ourselves. I asked him what they do, and he said they take a vanilla Vista install disc and reformat the HDD with it. For $100, no thank you. As someone stated in an above thread, it's ads on the computer to lower the cost of it. If you buy off the shelf computers, it may be worth it. And with a laptop/netbook, you have no choice but to buy it off the shelf.
My local paper is an AP regurgitator. It wouldn't be such a problem, except for the fact it regurgitates about 2 days behind the rest of the world. and on top of that, will do the same story 2 days in a row, with no change to the story what so ever. Any local stories it does do are normally about 2-3 paragraphs, and about the local bake sale or some school got a $5 grant for being the one picked out of a hat. With the advent of the 24 hours news channel and the internet, they quickly became obsolete asthey rehashed 2-3 day old news.
I have an original DS since launch. I love it. The screen size doesn't matter much once you start playing it. I recently got a PSP. After playing the PSP for a while and went back to my DS, it looked so small, and felt small. If I forgo my PSP for a while, it becomes less noticable. The hand cramping, that's still an issue. I don't have small Japanese school girl hands. I have corn fed American adult hands. If they do launch a DSi2 with a screen bigger then the original DS screen, I may look into getting one.
Warner Music, being the big pile of hate and control freaks they are, issued DMCA take down notices for videos on there own channel. The Slipknot video of PsychoSocial as the prime example. The local rock station would provide a link to the video, go to the link, and video removed by order of DMCA copyright infringement. As hosted under the Warner Music group channel, almost all the videos they had had the takedown notice. Why not just um, remove the video from the channel? I guess they needed to feed the lawyers
They banned fingernail clippers, why not batteries?
I'd very upset, because they would not stop at laptop batteries, but it would be a blanket ban on ALL batteries; cellphone, Nintendo DS, PSP, the little bop bop games like game and watch.
It is a government run agency. It will only become a problem when the senator who is chairman of some committee was told he couldn't bring his laptop as carry on, and it gets stolen as a checked item.
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IIRC, a lot of Redbox machines are owned and operated by individuals, who go can, if they want to, go to Wal-Mart and buy X number of said video, and stock the machine if they want.
Oh no, he's helping the terrorists by showing them what a reactor looks like and how it works. The Iranian people can use that to build 100billion teratons of nukes to kill stuff. Hang him.
Have you never been to a store around this time of year and looked at the DVD sections? That is one of the first sections that get destroyed by the soccer moms.
When companies would hand out free computers to anyone who asked, but they were so ad laden they were unusable? Or stopped whatever it was you were doing to play some sort of video for 30 seconds? Nothing is free.
Same here. I tried Bing after it came out. I did a comparison of searches for things that are relevant for me, it seemed that both engines returned the same top 20 results. Bing search result pages had more flash and annoying ad types, thus making me stay with Google. In no way was my comparison scientific, but I don't care. It was relevant to me.
I do understand that it may have changed a lot in the past few months, but when your first step is in shit, it's hard to take another step.
And MS have given fair warning for up to two months prior to this being launched. If they didn't want the update, they could have just disconnected and not gotten the update.
Warning, this update will ban your console if it is modded, do you want it?
How much more warning to those people need?
The house won't have to do anything. In order to get a TV sold in California, it must meet the power consumption. Manufacturers aren't going to produce a California TV and a US TV. It will be the same, and it will be sold everywhere, because of California. Thank you California for your crappy draconic regulations on everything that spreads to everything else in the US. Lead free solder in consumer products, thank you California.
I would love if California left the Empire. I could do with better quality items that don't have to meet California's draconic regulations just to be sold in the rest of the country. Crappy solder in your electronics, thank California for that. Stickers on everything that says it will give cancer to 1:1000000 lab rats when the carcinogenic item injected in the brain and may do the same to you, thank California for that. We would love to get rid of that bloated state and the yearly fires that soak up federal monies and resources.
It's the government's responsibility to force nature to it's whims and redirect everything.
Ya, Cause GWB told the Louisiana government how to spend the federal money sent to them. Oh, and what about Mr. Clinton? Did he stand up for 8 years demanding the NO levees be reinforced to handle a Cat5? It's not the president's responsibility to tell states how to spend money. It's congress critters that do that.
Since it is based on DnD, they should really only have to ask WoTC for permission to do it. Everyone else would get a notice in a trade industry publication stating, "Looking for all 3rd party rights holders for said IP. You have until 20xx to speak up, or your claimed rights to said property are forfeit for said new imaging of said property, as per current IP holder."
I don't know what kind of copy you bought. I got mine from D2D, got the 2 "free" DLCs and I bought Warden's Keep, all day one. I then proceded to to play the game, all while disconnected from the interwebs without any issue, AND use the DLC without any issue.
Do you even know what the hell the game is? It's single player. PvP in single player? Only if the other player is the AI, which is called PvE.
Or link landing on mars with helping American's find jobs, or getting Detroit back on it's feet, or keeping your bank open.
No sir, not the mobile. The Pipboy 3000.
I hope they realized that a large portion of gamers don't all have tiny Japanese school girl hands? Even with my original DS, it can be a hand cramper to hold when using the stylus and playing.
Laptops are expected to be able to do the SAME thing as your desktop though(with the exception of high end current games), in portable form. Take the same tech and shrink it, it will cost more.
When your portable costs more then your home system, something is wrong with your pricing path.
Very good point on the accident from the driver's ed. It doesn't just apply to traffic though. There are no "accidents." Affects have causes. Fall down the stairs? Not an accident; you were moving too fast, not holding on, had the wrong socks on, don't have the balance or physical strength to navigate them anymore, whatever. Get hit in the face playing basketball and break your nose? Not an accident; a choice was made to be in the play area and that has inherent dangers. You slid off the road while stopped at a red light cause of ice? Not an accident; unfortunate series of events, but no accident.
Life is hard and full of actions/reactions, not all of which are favorable.
It speaks volumes about the OEM Vendor that people need to download something deCRAPifier, which is quite popular, to make the computer not suck out of the box.
Offer a service to REMOVE all that junk for you when you buy it, for almost $100. That's the crazy part.
We bought my dad a laptop at Circuit City a few years back for Christmas, and the Firedog(sic?) tech was very persistent that we purchase the removal plan from them, as it's hard to do ourselves. I asked him what they do, and he said they take a vanilla Vista install disc and reformat the HDD with it. For $100, no thank you.
As someone stated in an above thread, it's ads on the computer to lower the cost of it. If you buy off the shelf computers, it may be worth it. And with a laptop/netbook, you have no choice but to buy it off the shelf.
My local paper is an AP regurgitator. It wouldn't be such a problem, except for the fact it regurgitates about 2 days behind the rest of the world. and on top of that, will do the same story 2 days in a row, with no change to the story what so ever. Any local stories it does do are normally about 2-3 paragraphs, and about the local bake sale or some school got a $5 grant for being the one picked out of a hat.
With the advent of the 24 hours news channel and the internet, they quickly became obsolete asthey rehashed 2-3 day old news.
I have an original DS since launch. I love it. The screen size doesn't matter much once you start playing it. I recently got a PSP. After playing the PSP for a while and went back to my DS, it looked so small, and felt small. If I forgo my PSP for a while, it becomes less noticable. The hand cramping, that's still an issue. I don't have small Japanese school girl hands. I have corn fed American adult hands.
If they do launch a DSi2 with a screen bigger then the original DS screen, I may look into getting one.
Warner Music, being the big pile of hate and control freaks they are, issued DMCA take down notices for videos on there own channel. The Slipknot video of PsychoSocial as the prime example. The local rock station would provide a link to the video, go to the link, and video removed by order of DMCA copyright infringement. As hosted under the Warner Music group channel, almost all the videos they had had the takedown notice. Why not just um, remove the video from the channel? I guess they needed to feed the lawyers
They banned fingernail clippers, why not batteries?
I'd very upset, because they would not stop at laptop batteries, but it would be a blanket ban on ALL batteries; cellphone, Nintendo DS, PSP, the little bop bop games like game and watch.
It is a government run agency. It will only become a problem when the senator who is chairman of some committee was told he couldn't bring his laptop as carry on, and it gets stolen as a checked item.