Dude you just ahve very bad luck. i've had my x-box for over a year and the only problem i had was with GHII which is supposedly made like a piece of junk and intended to break. The system itself works great. When I bought mine I got the extended 3 year warranty from Best Buy, it only cost me $50 and I already got most of it back cause my original controller broke. And it was no hassle i just went to the store and they gave me a brand new one.
The Helo effect may be over but i heard something about Gears 2 which will probably maintain the high sales for 360.
The Wii is as people mentioned on this blog is just not entertaining in the long term. The basic fact is that console companies make money from gaming licenses not from the console itself. So you have the Wii which outsels 360 and PS3 combined. But majority of Wii players are not hardcore gamers. They buy the Wii and maybe, just maybe they will buy one or more game on top. So for most of the time it sits there collecting dust. While X-box and PS3 gamers on average will spend over several hundred dollars per year on games. So figure it out, in a few years, once the Wii craze is over, Nintendo is not going to be the big winner in the end. Either way i would not spend money on a game that gives me the same graphics that I could get from my old X-box
The PS3 is a great and powerful system, but it costs to much and still has pretty much no games worth mentioning.
With regard to Vista and never trusted any Win OS, it was only when XP SP2 came out that I finally switched over from 98 SP2, it XP does work great. With that note also I would not upgrade to IE7. I use a lot of web based tools for my job and none of them work in the new explorer, one main example is the official Microsoft Web Outlook.
I am from Canada so maybe that is why I am confused, but what does GPS have to do with Credit Card payments or personal cellphones with GPS?!!
Every taxi I have ever been accpeted credit card in some one, even if it is the oldschool slider and call in service.
What I do agree is that sticking a GPS in everycab will only let the taxi companies and the government track every movement of the cabbie. If you ever used a cab you'll know that cabbies don't always report everything but then you get a discount anyway (e.g. charging a flat rate instead of putting the meter on and hence saving you 10 or 20 bucks). Also all the cabs have two ways of charging, per 300-500 meters travelled (depends on the company) and per 30seconds of standing idle.
Working fine my a$$. When I tore my ACL I spent 8 hours in the emergency room waiting, afterwards the doctor just told me it was a bad sprain and I'll be fine in a few weeks. It wasnt until a year later that I found out that my knee is fu*ked and I need surgery, by that point in time the damage was much more severe than if I had the surgery right away.
Not to mention that after the surgery they just shot me up with morphine prescribed T3s and sent me away. I didn't see the surgeon until 6 months after.
Compared to when I had my appendix removed in Israel (which only has private health care, and it is somehow affordable to nearly everyone) when I woke up from surgery I had 3 doctors and 2 nurses monitoring me.
I hate the conservatives but dual health care systems is how it should be.
Awsome article. Although I do have to say the Fusion was a great idea, not because it vibrates or has aloe stips but the combo of one blade and 5 together. I used to shave for years with Sensor Excel (2 blades) but I realized that it is much quicker with the Mach3, but I lost accuracy. I always have some type of facial hair and it is impossible to keep it neat and the lines straight when you have too many blades. So i got fusion and Im really happy with it. But a flashlight?!!!! If you can afford the new razor at 150$ you can afford a lightbulb...
Sorry if this come up twice but i don't think my post came up the first time:
Coming soon from Apple: Apple introduces the iPony. You can get it in black or grey. You must feed it Apple approved foods available only through the iTunes store (soon to be iMart). If it gets sick you must send it to an apple approved vet.
Warning!!! Do not teach it new tricks. Any modification to the original training may kill your pony and/or make it incompatible with future upgrades to your the iPony. We may release an SDK for the iPony after the market is outraged with us but you will still not be able to teach it yourself. Instead an apple trainer will train it new functions approved by apple.
Price of the iPony: $300 (hey it's still cheaper than the iPhone). Cost of maintenance per year: $3500 Cost of Vet bill: $10,000
I cannot afford one (although I would love a HDTV so I can finally play Lost Planet and Gears the way it was meant to play). I just lost my gaming TV to a drunken wrestling accident and the only other tv I have in the house is so old that it does not have any RCA jacks. So now my x-box is at my gf's place. My budget for a TV is $150 if anyone can point out an LCD tv that has a screen bigger than 19" for that price I'll buy one but until then im going to the Re-Store store or a pawn shop and getting my CRT cheapo TV
I agree with you but this is why the average user will be satisfied with a Pentium III and never wish for more (unless you try installing Vista on there). Unless you're a gamer or you do video editing there is no need for dual proccessor computer. But I guess Intel doesn't want the public to figure it out
"What's the best gaming laptop for under 1,500 bucks? I had my eye on the P7805u (Gateway), but it seems Best Buy has run out for the time being. Also, as a secondary question, I like the specs on brands such as iBUYPOWER and CyberPower and the like, but are they reliable? I'm a little worried about buying labels that aren't huge like Dell, Gateway, etc. Thanks!"
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The Helo effect may be over but i heard something about Gears 2 which will probably maintain the high sales for 360.
The Wii is as people mentioned on this blog is just not entertaining in the long term. The basic fact is that console companies make money from gaming licenses not from the console itself. So you have the Wii which outsels 360 and PS3 combined. But majority of Wii players are not hardcore gamers. They buy the Wii and maybe, just maybe they will buy one or more game on top. So for most of the time it sits there collecting dust. While X-box and PS3 gamers on average will spend over several hundred dollars per year on games. So figure it out, in a few years, once the Wii craze is over, Nintendo is not going to be the big winner in the end. Either way i would not spend money on a game that gives me the same graphics that I could get from my old X-box
The PS3 is a great and powerful system, but it costs to much and still has pretty much no games worth mentioning.
With regard to Vista and never trusted any Win OS, it was only when XP SP2 came out that I finally switched over from 98 SP2, it XP does work great. With that note also I would not upgrade to IE7. I use a lot of web based tools for my job and none of them work in the new explorer, one main example is the official Microsoft Web Outlook.