If you have a consumer grade account with ATT and you go above $1000 in charges, they should be warning. Either way $20,000 is an outrageous sum for telecommunication of one user month in the modern age.
Not only that, the Kingston factory is about 10 miles from where I live and they allow walk-up returns, after you setup the RMA online. Really great to able to RMA your parts same day.
HOwever, alot of the times items are mis-marketed, or there are undocumented features or bugs that dont come out until you get the product in your environment. You have no way of knowing if the USB 2.5" hard drive you buy from them is capable of being bus powered or requires 2 cables etc etc. How is that a fault to the consumer to get a device, use it in a reasonable manner, and find that its incompatible with their setup. This is just an example and not meant to be taken completely literally.
Thats really not the point is it?....... WHat if he had a very specific model of HDD picked out. Maybe he wanted a matching pair, or that particular model had a feature the others didnt, beyond the cache, such as low power, or ROHS or w/e. Point is, he paid for a certain model and received something different.
PC gaming and console gaming do not intersect at all levels. RTS is a good example of something that should played only on a PC. Racing games, up until recently were solely the province of consoles.
TO me, MS screws their customers ALOT harder then Sony does. If you are a developer and want to give away content, MS says no, you MUST charge for it and MS sets the price. Another example is Mass Effect, $15 for DLC on 360, free for PC users and the game was $10 cheaper. The wireless module for the 360 STILL costs almost $100 USD. You can only use MS approved hard drives, unlike PS3 where i can add whatever 2.5" sata drive i like. Add to that Live costs $50 a year,PSN works and its free. I have had no issues playing online on PSN. Sony allows Kb/mouse schemes, MS says no. The PS3 is a fantastic machine, IF you look at it as more than a gaming machine. It is, quite simply, the best media player yet developed. $400 is steal for what you get.
THe defacto naming convention, thats what. While technically you are right, common usage in this context has altered the meaning a bit. What most people call Linux is really GNu/Hurd.
When i saw the title, the first thing that came to mind was the DRM debacle. Its definately still on people's minds, as evidenced by the comments,and taints an otherwise well done game. Whats even more disappointing is that even the steam version has it. Their DRM is still affecting people and is a hinderance to the experience to this day. So i dont understand how a discussion of the game cannot include how very badly they pissed off ALOT of their base. I will think twice about PAYING for another title from them.
I have this issue with being slightly red-green colorblind. I can see the colors but red and green are sometimes indistinct to me. Older games didnt address this issue as well as newer ones, as publishers realized a fairly decent chunk (8-10%) of their core audience is at least partially color blind. I often equate being partially colorblind to being tone deaf. Its not like you cant hear the notes, its just hard to distinguish between them sometimes, right?
With that many users, you are well beyond a consumer grade connection. While it will work, dont complain if you go over. Nine people is well above the norm to share one connection and not to expect to pay more, or meter your use accordingly.
I have a VLK XP key from college in 2001 that i still use to this day, ive literally installed it hundreds of times ( on my own machines). I have used the key so many times i have it memorized.
I realize you had a principled response, and not including physical media is a downright shame. However, personally I would have used ghost or Acronis and imaged the drive and called it a day. I understand not everyone can do that.
On a Mac, the driver forthe device is required to send power over USB, not so on a Windows PC. The port starts delivering power regardless of driver state.
The simple answer is you dont use a singular strategy when talking about digital data. I would put all of the data on a regular spinning Hard Drive, a flash drive, cdr/dvdr, and I would print them out and put them all in the box. I also would upload a copy, even at reduced resolution to Amazon S3. Pictures are irreplaceable, plan your costs accordingly.
You would not use ink based technology if you were serious about archiving. You would use the standard archival real photographic paper that goes through the RA4 chemical process. Almost exactly like traditional negative based photos do.
Dude, have some empathy. It really pisses me off that i have a pocket PC that has one of its core functions severely crippled for profit only. Its really infuriating.
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If you have a consumer grade account with ATT and you go above $1000 in charges, they should be warning. Either way $20,000 is an outrageous sum for telecommunication of one user month in the modern age.
Not only that, the Kingston factory is about 10 miles from where I live and they allow walk-up returns, after you setup the RMA online. Really great to able to RMA your parts same day.
HOwever, alot of the times items are mis-marketed, or there are undocumented features or bugs that dont come out until you get the product in your environment. You have no way of knowing if the USB 2.5" hard drive you buy from them is capable of being bus powered or requires 2 cables etc etc. How is that a fault to the consumer to get a device, use it in a reasonable manner, and find that its incompatible with their setup. This is just an example and not meant to be taken completely literally.
Thats really not the point is it?....... WHat if he had a very specific model of HDD picked out. Maybe he wanted a matching pair, or that particular model had a feature the others didnt, beyond the cache, such as low power, or ROHS or w/e. Point is, he paid for a certain model and received something different.
PC gaming and console gaming do not intersect at all levels. RTS is a good example of something that should played only on a PC. Racing games, up until recently were solely the province of consoles. TO me, MS screws their customers ALOT harder then Sony does. If you are a developer and want to give away content, MS says no, you MUST charge for it and MS sets the price. Another example is Mass Effect, $15 for DLC on 360, free for PC users and the game was $10 cheaper. The wireless module for the 360 STILL costs almost $100 USD. You can only use MS approved hard drives, unlike PS3 where i can add whatever 2.5" sata drive i like. Add to that Live costs $50 a year,PSN works and its free. I have had no issues playing online on PSN. Sony allows Kb/mouse schemes, MS says no. The PS3 is a fantastic machine, IF you look at it as more than a gaming machine. It is, quite simply, the best media player yet developed. $400 is steal for what you get.
THe defacto naming convention, thats what. While technically you are right, common usage in this context has altered the meaning a bit. What most people call Linux is really GNu/Hurd.
I have seen PCI(e) eSATA boards that have a round power out port right next to the eSATA port.
When i saw the title, the first thing that came to mind was the DRM debacle. Its definately still on people's minds, as evidenced by the comments,and taints an otherwise well done game. Whats even more disappointing is that even the steam version has it. Their DRM is still affecting people and is a hinderance to the experience to this day. So i dont understand how a discussion of the game cannot include how very badly they pissed off ALOT of their base. I will think twice about PAYING for another title from them.
Certs can be useful in the real world, but skills are better. Use this time to teach them fundamentals, not how to pass an arbitrary test.
So you hate turkey? It ceratinly changes the way your mind works. The world is not black and white, drug or not drug.
SO you are saying we should simply ignore a foundation of our government?
I have this issue with being slightly red-green colorblind. I can see the colors but red and green are sometimes indistinct to me. Older games didnt address this issue as well as newer ones, as publishers realized a fairly decent chunk (8-10%) of their core audience is at least partially color blind. I often equate being partially colorblind to being tone deaf. Its not like you cant hear the notes, its just hard to distinguish between them sometimes, right?
SO instead we are left to foot the ir stupidity of living on the sea, below sea level.
With that many users, you are well beyond a consumer grade connection. While it will work, dont complain if you go over. Nine people is well above the norm to share one connection and not to expect to pay more, or meter your use accordingly.
of these comments are, "You are asking the wrong questions, and approaching the problem from entirely the wrong perspective"
I have a VLK XP key from college in 2001 that i still use to this day, ive literally installed it hundreds of times ( on my own machines). I have used the key so many times i have it memorized.
Aye, a typo, thank you.
I realize you had a principled response, and not including physical media is a downright shame. However, personally I would have used ghost or Acronis and imaged the drive and called it a day. I understand not everyone can do that.
Shirley, you jest.
On a Mac, the driver forthe device is required to send power over USB, not so on a Windows PC. The port starts delivering power regardless of driver state.
USB 3.0 was just finalized, backwards pin compatible. We'll be seeing the USB interface for quite awhile.
The simple answer is you dont use a singular strategy when talking about digital data. I would put all of the data on a regular spinning Hard Drive, a flash drive, cdr/dvdr, and I would print them out and put them all in the box. I also would upload a copy, even at reduced resolution to Amazon S3. Pictures are irreplaceable, plan your costs accordingly.
You would not use ink based technology if you were serious about archiving. You would use the standard archival real photographic paper that goes through the RA4 chemical process. Almost exactly like traditional negative based photos do.
The CD-R spec was published in 1998....however I tend to be skeptical of *ahem* PRman's statement as well
Dude, have some empathy. It really pisses me off that i have a pocket PC that has one of its core functions severely crippled for profit only. Its really infuriating.