If I can pick up a 360 with HDMI out and HD-DVD AND Blu-ray support for less than the cost of a stand-alone hybrid player (which is about A$1,300 last time I checked, but should be cheaper now given that the Australian dollar has almost reached parity with the US$) then I'll get one. Then I'll also invest in an HD TV and a 5/6.1 surround system.
As a person who plays WoW, I think it's stupid. And would people who don't play it even have a clue what's going on? It probably tells us more about the recreational activities of the advertising company that came up with it than anything else.
The only thing it's achieved is that it's gotten posted to a bunch of blogs, but I've already forgotten what brand of car it was.
Fair enough. I'm at work and haven't viewed the video. Assuming there's at least one working stick of RAM available, then checking the RAM is one of the easier tasks on a PC that won't boot.
I'm not sure "vast majority" is the right phrase to use when talking about the available range of Blu-ray players. There's, what, maybe a dozen different models in the market? And five of them have some sort of issue.
A RAM failure, depending on severity, is a right PITA to diagnose. Unless the PC suddenly has less RAM than it's supposed to the errors resulting from a RAM problem look a lot like a whole bunch of other problems. The people likely to find a RAM problem are the ones that start with something like a boot-from-CD hardware diagnostics run, which can take hours. In which case if it isn't a hardware fault they just "gouged" you for a couple of hours of useless diagnostics.
Any ground astronomy actually discovering cutting-edge stuff, is already located far from cities.
Or it was. The observatory here in Western Australia has already moved once and it's becoming affected by the metro area's lights again. It's not going to be able to afford to move again.
Even if the facilities here aren't cutting edge, what if the next Galileo would have been born here but never gets into Astronomy because the facility was made useless just by people pointlessly sending light into the sky?
Light pollution can seriously affect ground-based astronomy. If scientific progress is something you don't care about, I can see why you'd think it irrelevant.
From what my guild's high-level (purpled) tanks tell me, the first thing that would need to be done would be to reduce the durability hit simply from being the tank. I'm told that an epicced-out level 70 tank, even if they don't die, will get a repair bill higher than the amount they make from being on the run.
This fact alone seems to be more than enough to make the old-skool raid instances into ghost towns.
I agree. I really enjoyed Zangarmarsh and happily played my (herbalist) druid through it without getting frustrated and feeling a great need to switch to an alt for some fun. The quest density was amazing; Just fill your log to the brim and kill anything and it counts. And those Sporegaar dudes are so cute.
The 20-60 news hit my guild's forums a few days back. I've been working on a hunter I'd got up to 40-something and a Shaman at 20-something, but I've parked both and been working on my 60-something since the news.
I'm going to have a lot of fun burning my alts through the levels once the change comes out.
One of the things I've noticed about the "middle levels" is that if you're not careful about moving around zones you can end up with all orange and red quests. My first character basically had to grind green mobs for a couple of levels around the high 40s because I missed a couple of entire zones and the quests there were grey by the time I found them. By simply upping the XP you get and reducing the XP per level Blizzard are saving themselves from ever having to add any more quests from 20-60. They don't need to worry about below 20 because every time they add a new starting area for a new race (or whatever) they give players even more ways to get to 20. In fact, there's already more than enough low-level quests for you to pretty much only do green quests from about 6 to 20 if you know where to go. (That reminds me, I should take my little rogue to the Draenei starting area.)
Didn't you know that homosexuals were incapable of writing good drivers? All they do is sit around reading women's magazines and matching their belt to their shoes.
All the best drivers are made by heterosexual cross-dressers. Post-op transsexuals are gods at compression utilities, while operating systems are best written by eunuchs.
I have no moral obligation to conform my behaviour to someone else's business model. Trying to forcibly alter a potential customer's behaviour to fit your business model is, at best, annoying or, more likely, simply doomed to failure. This isn't just about web advertising, I could just as easily be talking about, say, retail stores built like a rat maze (I'm looking at YOU Ikea).
My current DVD player will play high definition Divx files from DVD or from a flash drive or hard drive plugged into its USB port. The compression rate is plenty good enough to shoe-horn a full-length HD movie onto a dual-layer DVD. Lots of existing devices and pretty much every PC on the planet made in the last five years should be able to play that.
Rude much? When I first read the title I thought it was about a new rootkit called "Home", not that the old rootkit reported back to Sony. Title Case Doesn't Help. Neither does using the ambiguous word "called".
I wrote a web storage module for the (international) college group I used to work at years ago. IIRC it automatically assigned 5MB of storage per subject (configurable). It was built to replace the "H: Drive" that was only available within our computing labs and reduce the need for (unreliable) removable storage, ie; Floppy and Zip disks.
We also had a messaging module, installations of phpBB and MediaWiki, electronic assignment submission, on-line marks entry for the lecturers and a raft of other features all built just to keep our heads above the workload. We can't have been the only ones in the world doing this stuff.
I've voluntarily installed screenmate software before and typically it doesn't last past the day. I can't imagine there won't be plenty of programs written to turn them off.
As the owner of an N-Gage who upgraded to a Nokia 6680 when the games dried up, I'd certainly be interested in installing the new N-gage software service thingy (or whatever it is) if it works on my current phone. The original N-Gage attempt wasn't nearly as bad as everyone makes out, it just seems to be very popular to slag off at it whenever the topic comes up.
What are you comparing the DS web browser to? If you compare it to Firefox on the desktop, I can see your problem, but if you compare it to, say, the bundled browser on the PSP (which keeps running out of RAM) or Pocket IE on any given Pocket PC (which keeps crashing) it's possibly the best mobile browser out there.
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If I can pick up a 360 with HDMI out and HD-DVD AND Blu-ray support for less than the cost of a stand-alone hybrid player (which is about A$1,300 last time I checked, but should be cheaper now given that the Australian dollar has almost reached parity with the US$) then I'll get one. Then I'll also invest in an HD TV and a 5/6.1 surround system.
As a person who plays WoW, I think it's stupid. And would people who don't play it even have a clue what's going on? It probably tells us more about the recreational activities of the advertising company that came up with it than anything else.
The only thing it's achieved is that it's gotten posted to a bunch of blogs, but I've already forgotten what brand of car it was.
Fair enough. I'm at work and haven't viewed the video. Assuming there's at least one working stick of RAM available, then checking the RAM is one of the easier tasks on a PC that won't boot.
All of the RAM problems I've come across do not show up during that cursory BIOS memory check. I'm not that stupid.
I'm not sure "vast majority" is the right phrase to use when talking about the available range of Blu-ray players. There's, what, maybe a dozen different models in the market? And five of them have some sort of issue.
A RAM failure, depending on severity, is a right PITA to diagnose. Unless the PC suddenly has less RAM than it's supposed to the errors resulting from a RAM problem look a lot like a whole bunch of other problems. The people likely to find a RAM problem are the ones that start with something like a boot-from-CD hardware diagnostics run, which can take hours. In which case if it isn't a hardware fault they just "gouged" you for a couple of hours of useless diagnostics.
Aren't Sony irrelevant yet?
Even if the facilities here aren't cutting edge, what if the next Galileo would have been born here but never gets into Astronomy because the facility was made useless just by people pointlessly sending light into the sky?
Light pollution can seriously affect ground-based astronomy. If scientific progress is something you don't care about, I can see why you'd think it irrelevant.
From what my guild's high-level (purpled) tanks tell me, the first thing that would need to be done would be to reduce the durability hit simply from being the tank. I'm told that an epicced-out level 70 tank, even if they don't die, will get a repair bill higher than the amount they make from being on the run.
This fact alone seems to be more than enough to make the old-skool raid instances into ghost towns.
I agree. I really enjoyed Zangarmarsh and happily played my (herbalist) druid through it without getting frustrated and feeling a great need to switch to an alt for some fun. The quest density was amazing; Just fill your log to the brim and kill anything and it counts. And those Sporegaar dudes are so cute.
The 20-60 news hit my guild's forums a few days back. I've been working on a hunter I'd got up to 40-something and a Shaman at 20-something, but I've parked both and been working on my 60-something since the news.
I'm going to have a lot of fun burning my alts through the levels once the change comes out.
One of the things I've noticed about the "middle levels" is that if you're not careful about moving around zones you can end up with all orange and red quests. My first character basically had to grind green mobs for a couple of levels around the high 40s because I missed a couple of entire zones and the quests there were grey by the time I found them. By simply upping the XP you get and reducing the XP per level Blizzard are saving themselves from ever having to add any more quests from 20-60. They don't need to worry about below 20 because every time they add a new starting area for a new race (or whatever) they give players even more ways to get to 20. In fact, there's already more than enough low-level quests for you to pretty much only do green quests from about 6 to 20 if you know where to go. (That reminds me, I should take my little rogue to the Draenei starting area.)
I can confirm it on Excel 2007 (12.0.4518.1014), running under Vista.
Reaper is crap, Sarah Conner Chronicles is seriously questionable. Meanwhile, Pushing Daisies absolutely rocks.
Didn't you know that homosexuals were incapable of writing good drivers? All they do is sit around reading women's magazines and matching their belt to their shoes.
All the best drivers are made by heterosexual cross-dressers. Post-op transsexuals are gods at compression utilities, while operating systems are best written by eunuchs.
I have no moral obligation to conform my behaviour to someone else's business model. Trying to forcibly alter a potential customer's behaviour to fit your business model is, at best, annoying or, more likely, simply doomed to failure. This isn't just about web advertising, I could just as easily be talking about, say, retail stores built like a rat maze (I'm looking at YOU Ikea).
My current DVD player will play high definition Divx files from DVD or from a flash drive or hard drive plugged into its USB port. The compression rate is plenty good enough to shoe-horn a full-length HD movie onto a dual-layer DVD. Lots of existing devices and pretty much every PC on the planet made in the last five years should be able to play that.
If your wiimote cursor is twitchy, try putting the little IR light bar thingy on the plastic stand that came with it.
Rude much? When I first read the title I thought it was about a new rootkit called "Home", not that the old rootkit reported back to Sony. Title Case Doesn't Help. Neither does using the ambiguous word "called".
I wrote a web storage module for the (international) college group I used to work at years ago. IIRC it automatically assigned 5MB of storage per subject (configurable). It was built to replace the "H: Drive" that was only available within our computing labs and reduce the need for (unreliable) removable storage, ie; Floppy and Zip disks.
We also had a messaging module, installations of phpBB and MediaWiki, electronic assignment submission, on-line marks entry for the lecturers and a raft of other features all built just to keep our heads above the workload. We can't have been the only ones in the world doing this stuff.
*double checks user agent*
Yup, mine is still 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U)', thanks to Proxomitron. No reason to make it easy for people to exploit my browser.
I've voluntarily installed screenmate software before and typically it doesn't last past the day. I can't imagine there won't be plenty of programs written to turn them off.
As the owner of an N-Gage who upgraded to a Nokia 6680 when the games dried up, I'd certainly be interested in installing the new N-gage software service thingy (or whatever it is) if it works on my current phone. The original N-Gage attempt wasn't nearly as bad as everyone makes out, it just seems to be very popular to slag off at it whenever the topic comes up.
What are you comparing the DS web browser to? If you compare it to Firefox on the desktop, I can see your problem, but if you compare it to, say, the bundled browser on the PSP (which keeps running out of RAM) or Pocket IE on any given Pocket PC (which keeps crashing) it's possibly the best mobile browser out there.