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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20428 |  Phirewind (780) May 02, 2008 - 08:35 am
| | And it's all because of a complete lack of product quality control leading to consumer avoidance. Then again, if Atari had gained half a clue what power it had taken hold of before the 80's crash and acted accordingly, who knows what it may have become before Nintendo ever showed up. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20412 | Phirewind (780) Apr 26, 2008 - 11:25 am
| If he comes out of retirement, then gets sidelined by injury...
Then again, maybe it's the players' effort to avoid the curse by using big-name retired players.
Of course, if he isn't playing, he could always slip off his rocker and sprain an ankle and I guess that would still count. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20363 | Phirewind (780) Apr 15, 2008 - 09:29 am
| Just another re-hash of the same idea that comes up every few months. Taxing Internet traffic, sales, commerce, shipping, blah blah blah. It's all crap, but every time the idea emerges it is OUR responsibility to ensure that it is crushed. The first step is to let your congress(person) know that any vote to establish new Internet taxes will guarantee that you will do everything in your power to see him/her replaced at the next election.
The answer is NOT raising taxes. The first thing we need to do is prevent politicians from spending your tax dollars on things that are only designed specifically to get themselves re-elected. They're called "earmarks" now, but that's just to avoid the more appropriate term: "pork".
If you look carefully at some of the supposedly "help the people" bills that you'd think should pass through easily, but get squashed by one side or the other, it's usually because someone has attached "pork" to the bill that is completely unrelated to the overall goal (support funds for troops, road construction, economic relief bills, etc), and is just there to increase their chances of re-election. Any time you add a new revenue source for government in it's current condition, you can bet easy money that it'll be wasted, and we're the ones that pay. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20366 | Phirewind (780) Apr 15, 2008 - 08:50 am
| | I don't see how they can justify this. I've worked with major clients who were still running Windows 98 SE and Windows 2000 up until 2006, because they had a huge number of desktops and it was an exhorbitant cost to go to XP. Now they're going to be told that they have to dump an OS that they'll only have had in place for less than 3 years. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20319 | Phirewind (780) Apr 06, 2008 - 08:19 pm
| | I had 2 games with StarForce that wouldn't run on any of my PC's (forgot about Space Rangers 2, was supposed to be a good game, but StarForce killed it's market appeal). A friend actually had to replace his DVD drive because he couldn't figure out how to undo some epic damage done in some ancient crevice of the drivers. Starforce was "designed" (used loosely) to prevent theft, but it mostly punished honest purchasers. Consider yourself lucky if you have SF-locked discs and no resulting complications. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20062 | Phirewind (780) Mar 20, 2008 - 08:38 am
| | Well, for one thing it looks like much of their scoring is based on whether or not the company has a web link to a pretty policy statement, not any sort of physical examination of the products manufactured or byproducts of the process. I don't think "the environment" cares how green a company's WEBSITE looks. Flag this | Edit this post |
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