Comment Re:Reminds me of the old quote... (Score 1) 206
If you try to download a 20 GB game over 5 GB/mo satellite Internet access, you'll have 4 month latency.
Satellite!?!? What the heck part of frickin' nowhere do you live in? Geez!
If you try to download a 20 GB game over 5 GB/mo satellite Internet access, you'll have 4 month latency.
Satellite!?!? What the heck part of frickin' nowhere do you live in? Geez!
This will take needed money from the initiatives to protect the country from zombies, aliens and robots.
Hey! Don't pick on robots! We need them to help manufacture things in this wretched economy. DAMN' YOU OBAMA!!
Wait, horseball sounds like something *entirely* different.
Yeah, like some bodily substance you shouldn't mention around women, YUCK!!!
To be frank, some of the staff at US airports appear to have an IQ barely above imbecility. I've been in the US four times, and nowhere else have I seen such unfriendly, unhelpful, and downright hostile personnel than at the airports. A man whose only job appeared to be holding a sign pointing to a gate refused to show us the way to the toilets. Another man went through our bags before we boarded and found the remains of a coconut which we'd intended to eat on the plane; he turned to me (I was 12 at the time), said "you must be a real idiot" and threw it in the garbage. If people like that are employed by the TSA, I'm hardly shocked that situations like the one with the little girl make the news every few weeks. If those dimwits don't know how to properly interact with passengers, put them in a position where they don't have to, or don't hire them.
Last year, we did a trip around Iceland. Before our return flight, when we waited at the security check, we found that we still had some 2 liter bottles of lemonade in our bags. So we started chugging away (don't like to waste food), and a security guy came up to us. He told us to relax and take the bottles on the plane. "This is Reykjavik, not New York. Have a nice flight."
Keep in mind that some of these TSA agents are actually cops that may have been fired for whatever reason by their jurisdiction, and they'd do anything just to make a get by in this economy and retain their experience at the same time. Some cops may actually start out as TSA agents instead of serving in the military or, for heaven's sake, being 'mall cops'.
The Year of the Linux (Gaming) Desktop is finally here!
I'm sure that what we're looking at here are the innards of what's going into the purported 'Steambox' mentioned a few months ago. I mean, wouldn't you expect something like that to run off a Linux kernel, and maybe have a Linux-based programming architecture like the original PlayStation and XBox systems did? Not so sure about this stuff showing up in a Linux desktop distro anytime soon though.
Apple knows how to split it. They just don't know how to split it on Windows. They're simply not good at Windows development.
Hence the PC Free solution they're working on, which should entail adding iTunes' functionality to iCloud. It just makes sense!
In the music area of the local best buy, there's usually one employee and no customers, a pretty limited selection, and it's rare that any price breaks are available. I can't see myself buying anything there.
I can beg to differ, I visited such a Best Buy location in the Portland Oregon metro area in 2010 and noticed quite a few folks there, maybe because it was just after Christmas at the time.
The blame will land on piracy, because they can't admit that things like the Mythbox (mentioned by an AC in another response to my post) and other DVRs totally wreck their scheme.
You forgot Netflix, which just happens to be viewable via most Blu-Ray players and set-top boxes (a handy option if you don't have a smart TV). There's quite a bit of movie content to be had there, even with Starz bowing out.
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