I wouldn't say they rotate along the wrong axis, but that they have the rotating outlets in a suboptimal configuration. All of the grounds should be facing inward because most bricks have more sticking below the prongs than above it.
But then they would suck when on the same plane as the middle strip. So basically, this power strip has outlets that are going to be extremely annoying in that they keep moving.
What they needed were outlets that would spin on two axes of rotation.
Considering how Sony is crippling the newer PS3's (in terms of backwards compatibility) and the fact that BluRay looks to be the winner in the Format-War-No-One-Cared-About, I don't see how supporting the all but dead HD-DVD format benefits Sony at all.
The launch delays were due to a shortage of lasers and the usual production problems, not any covert scheme to convert HD-DVD adopters to BluRay after the format war dust settled. Plus, Toshiba would've known about any such attempts as Sony would have needed to license the technology from them. And if Sony does pull this magic rabbit out of aforementioned orifice, then Toshiba wins in a big fat patent infringement lawsuit.
Next, Sony makes more money from selling people BluRay discs than from selling PS3 consoles. So, if someone has a HD-DVD player that broke down, Sony would rather them repurchase all of their titles on BluRay than flip some magic switch in the PS3.
Also, the PS3 is more likely to break down before the HD-DVD player.
New media refers to DVDs as it is a new medium for the TV shows to be distributed on. So, they actually got that. What they didn't have:
Timely residuals on DVD sales and ad revenue generated by online streaming, union regulations for content created especially for such ventures (DVD bonus features, "webisodes", etc.), and jurisdiction over reality and animated shows (currently covered by another union or none at all).
They have two of those now. The residuals and union regulations on new media ventures. They don't have the jurisdiction on reality and animation.
So, you trust Microsoft when speaking on Linux? Or the IE team speaking on Opera?
When I read an opinion from someone who has a stake in the outcomes, I'm default skeptical. Regardless if the company makes me all warm and fuzzy on the inside.
I said the Thing was better. I actually cared about the characters and felt the tension they were trying to convey. Cloverfield was boring. I said nothing about the plot/story/inaccuracies and it had nothing to do with my like/dislike of the film.
1) I didn't give a fuckstick about any of the characters and was happy when Hud became a snack. All of the characters are boring one-dimensional entities. And retarded to boot. 2) Half a second of action every five minutes is not non-stop action. It was fucking boring. Alien landing, dicking around outside for a while, bridge collapse, dicking around for a while, go into a subway, dick around for a while, walk through the tunnels while dicking around, ignore the swarm of rats running from something, Mini-Creepy attack, dicking around in a room for a while, get picked up by army, dick around, chick blows up, dick around, walk to apartment building, climb up a lot stairs, get across a slanted roof, get bangor chick, leave, see Mini-Creepy in stairwell, close door, skip the walking down the stairs, get to extraction point, have Lily actually escape, get on chopper, have chopper get taken down, survive crash, annoying guy gets eaten by stealthy Mega-Creepy, hide under bridge, profess love, die. That's the whole movie. 3) The tape was recovered. The thing either left of its own volition or was killed. I'm betting on the second. 4) The effects were ok, and there was no story to get in the way of. 5) Wasn't scary. Unless predictable is the new scary.
I was done with this movie when I saw the trailer in front of Transformers. Having actually seen it, my opinion still holds: Just a boring monster movie. The most bad ass thing about that movie was the Iron Man trailer in front of it.
I'm just saying the "epic quest" style of game used to be one of many. Now even platformers are trying to meet the "minimum 20 hours gameplay".
Shit, I work for a living. I play games to specifically not work. Really, a good video game should be like a puzzle, book, movie, or board/card game. Something that you can come back to time and time again. I think developers and publishers are pushing too much content just for the sake of giving us something so we don't complain about lackluster gameplay.
I remember when games could be beaten in under two hours total. Then we'd play them again. Because they were fun. I don't remember where this whole "games must be 40 hours minimum" idea came into everyone's head.
OVER 13 MILLION CONSOLES SOLD IN JUST OVER A YEAR OVER 13 MILLION CONSOLES SOLD IN JUST OVER A YEAR OVER 13 MILLION CONSOLES SOLD IN JUST OVER A YEAR
Understand that. This situation is unprecedented in the history of the industry. I'll reiterate one of my previous posts. If demand for the Wii was half what it is now, then there would be 6.5 million consoles in stores right now. That is more than the PS3 has currently sold worldwide.
If everyone wanted a blue Ford Focus to the exclusion of all other cars there would be a "shortage" of those as well.
It's totally easy to keep a "semi-constant" stock when no one wants your product. Right now, Nintendo has sold more Wii consoles than Microsoft has sold 360 consoles. And the 360 had been in stores for about a year before the Wii came out. So divide the number of Wii consoles sold in half (current estimates are saying 13 million) and let's talk about hypothetical.
If only 6.5 million Wii consoles had sold in the same time frame (still more than the PS3) there would be no shortage right now. Or ask this question, if demand for the 360 was the same as for the Wii, would we see 360 consoles on the shelves? (Just double the number sold currently (around 12 million)) Do you think there are 12 million more 360 consoles in stores right now?
Hell, Sony wishes they had Nintendo's problems right about now (not enough stock for overwhelming demand, making cash hand over fist, maintaining top-notch development studios).
So, in most respects there are no shortage of Wii consoles being produced, Nintendo just has the problem of almost everyone wanting one.
God makes science irrelevant. If there is a being that can violate the laws of physics on whim, then the laws of physics mean nothing. If pleading with the sky-fairy can make people better, change the odds of something happening, etc. Then medicine is bunk. Physics is bunk. Chemistry, biology, and any other science you can think of is bunk.
In order for science to progress, the person doing the seeking must assume (even unknowingly) that there can be no divine intervention.
1984 is nice, but I prefer "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"
"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record: prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and the thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own, for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that such things cannot be confined... to The Twilight Zone."
It's that attitude that makes scammers more likely to hit the same target.
And your belief that scammers are trying to minimize contact is working against you. You are working on the assumption that the scammer feels guilt for his actions or is worried that he will get caught. The scammer is working under no such assumptions. Actually, the scammer is more likely to hit up the same store as it looks less suspicious than dropping your credit card to two or three stores for the same item.
You do realize that computers have usually lagged behind consoles in the graphics department. It wasn't really until the advent of the cheap 3D accelerator that PCs have been able to surpass dedicated consoles.
Or like my friend who owns a PS3 and is now just using it as a BluRay player because there is nothing worth playing at the moment. He's far more enamored of his 360 now (Bioshock, Halo 3, Eternal Sonata). And he's a pretty big Sony fanboy (self-admitted (and if you go to his house, his electronics bear this out)).
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Regardless of its inspiration, The Last Supper is a very iconic piece of art in and of itself. A person's faith has nothing to do with it.
Kelly Khapur from the Office.
I wouldn't say they rotate along the wrong axis, but that they have the rotating outlets in a suboptimal configuration. All of the grounds should be facing inward because most bricks have more sticking below the prongs than above it.
But then they would suck when on the same plane as the middle strip. So basically, this power strip has outlets that are going to be extremely annoying in that they keep moving.
What they needed were outlets that would spin on two axes of rotation.
Considering how Sony is crippling the newer PS3's (in terms of backwards compatibility) and the fact that BluRay looks to be the winner in the Format-War-No-One-Cared-About, I don't see how supporting the all but dead HD-DVD format benefits Sony at all.
The launch delays were due to a shortage of lasers and the usual production problems, not any covert scheme to convert HD-DVD adopters to BluRay after the format war dust settled. Plus, Toshiba would've known about any such attempts as Sony would have needed to license the technology from them. And if Sony does pull this magic rabbit out of aforementioned orifice, then Toshiba wins in a big fat patent infringement lawsuit.
Next, Sony makes more money from selling people BluRay discs than from selling PS3 consoles. So, if someone has a HD-DVD player that broke down, Sony would rather them repurchase all of their titles on BluRay than flip some magic switch in the PS3.
Also, the PS3 is more likely to break down before the HD-DVD player.
New media refers to DVDs as it is a new medium for the TV shows to be distributed on. So, they actually got that. What they didn't have:
Timely residuals on DVD sales and ad revenue generated by online streaming, union regulations for content created especially for such ventures (DVD bonus features, "webisodes", etc.), and jurisdiction over reality and animated shows (currently covered by another union or none at all).
They have two of those now. The residuals and union regulations on new media ventures. They don't have the jurisdiction on reality and animation.
The plural of anecdote is not data
So, you trust Microsoft when speaking on Linux? Or the IE team speaking on Opera?
When I read an opinion from someone who has a stake in the outcomes, I'm default skeptical. Regardless if the company makes me all warm and fuzzy on the inside.
Håkon Wium Lie CTO, Opera Software
I'm sorry, but I can't trust his opinion on a competing product.
Actually, you can contact XBox tech support and they will credit your account with 800 points. (Or something like that)
Messed up my password last time so I'll repost.
I said the Thing was better. I actually cared about the characters and felt the tension they were trying to convey. Cloverfield was boring. I said nothing about the plot/story/inaccuracies and it had nothing to do with my like/dislike of the film.
The Thing
1) I didn't give a fuckstick about any of the characters and was happy when Hud became a snack. All of the characters are boring one-dimensional entities. And retarded to boot.
2) Half a second of action every five minutes is not non-stop action. It was fucking boring. Alien landing, dicking around outside for a while, bridge collapse, dicking around for a while, go into a subway, dick around for a while, walk through the tunnels while dicking around, ignore the swarm of rats running from something, Mini-Creepy attack, dicking around in a room for a while, get picked up by army, dick around, chick blows up, dick around, walk to apartment building, climb up a lot stairs, get across a slanted roof, get bangor chick, leave, see Mini-Creepy in stairwell, close door, skip the walking down the stairs, get to extraction point, have Lily actually escape, get on chopper, have chopper get taken down, survive crash, annoying guy gets eaten by stealthy Mega-Creepy, hide under bridge, profess love, die. That's the whole movie.
3) The tape was recovered. The thing either left of its own volition or was killed. I'm betting on the second.
4) The effects were ok, and there was no story to get in the way of.
5) Wasn't scary. Unless predictable is the new scary.
I was done with this movie when I saw the trailer in front of Transformers. Having actually seen it, my opinion still holds: Just a boring monster movie. The most bad ass thing about that movie was the Iron Man trailer in front of it.
I'm just saying the "epic quest" style of game used to be one of many. Now even platformers are trying to meet the "minimum 20 hours gameplay".
Shit, I work for a living. I play games to specifically not work. Really, a good video game should be like a puzzle, book, movie, or board/card game. Something that you can come back to time and time again. I think developers and publishers are pushing too much content just for the sake of giving us something so we don't complain about lackluster gameplay.
I remember when games could be beaten in under two hours total.
Then we'd play them again. Because they were fun. I don't remember where this whole "games must be 40 hours minimum" idea came into everyone's head.
OVER 13 MILLION CONSOLES SOLD IN JUST OVER A YEAR
OVER 13 MILLION CONSOLES SOLD IN JUST OVER A YEAR
OVER 13 MILLION CONSOLES SOLD IN JUST OVER A YEAR
Understand that. This situation is unprecedented in the history of the industry. I'll reiterate one of my previous posts. If demand for the Wii was half what it is now, then there would be 6.5 million consoles in stores right now. That is more than the PS3 has currently sold worldwide.
If everyone wanted a blue Ford Focus to the exclusion of all other cars there would be a "shortage" of those as well.
It's totally easy to keep a "semi-constant" stock when no one wants your product. Right now, Nintendo has sold more Wii consoles than Microsoft has sold 360 consoles. And the 360 had been in stores for about a year before the Wii came out. So divide the number of Wii consoles sold in half (current estimates are saying 13 million) and let's talk about hypothetical.
If only 6.5 million Wii consoles had sold in the same time frame (still more than the PS3) there would be no shortage right now. Or ask this question, if demand for the 360 was the same as for the Wii, would we see 360 consoles on the shelves? (Just double the number sold currently (around 12 million)) Do you think there are 12 million more 360 consoles in stores right now?
Hell, Sony wishes they had Nintendo's problems right about now (not enough stock for overwhelming demand, making cash hand over fist, maintaining top-notch development studios).
So, in most respects there are no shortage of Wii consoles being produced, Nintendo just has the problem of almost everyone wanting one.
God makes science irrelevant. If there is a being that can violate the laws of physics on whim, then the laws of physics mean nothing. If pleading with the sky-fairy can make people better, change the odds of something happening, etc. Then medicine is bunk. Physics is bunk. Chemistry, biology, and any other science you can think of is bunk.
In order for science to progress, the person doing the seeking must assume (even unknowingly) that there can be no divine intervention.
1984 is nice, but I prefer "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"
"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record: prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and the thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own, for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that such things cannot be confined... to The Twilight Zone."
It's that attitude that makes scammers more likely to hit the same target.
And your belief that scammers are trying to minimize contact is working against you. You are working on the assumption that the scammer feels guilt for his actions or is worried that he will get caught. The scammer is working under no such assumptions.
Actually, the scammer is more likely to hit up the same store as it looks less suspicious than dropping your credit card to two or three stores for the same item.
But then he gets two hard drives for the price of one.
1) Buy hard drive
2) Repackage with tiles
3) Return tiles for full refund of hard drive
4) Buy another hard drive
You now have two hard drives and only paid for one.
You do realize that computers have usually lagged behind consoles in the graphics department. It wasn't really until the advent of the cheap 3D accelerator that PCs have been able to surpass dedicated consoles.
No it doesn't. The Theory of Evolution only tells us what happens to living things over time.
I don't see anything in there anywhere about swearing.
http://www.systemsguild.com/GuildSite/TDM/Professionalism.html
Unprofessional is another way to say you don't personally like something.
Or like my friend who owns a PS3 and is now just using it as a BluRay player because there is nothing worth playing at the moment. He's far more enamored of his 360 now (Bioshock, Halo 3, Eternal Sonata). And he's a pretty big Sony fanboy (self-admitted (and if you go to his house, his electronics bear this out)).