Personally I used to play a lot of the longer games (mostly strategy types) but lately I've gotten into games that have a lot of shorter sections like Plants versus Zombies or World of Goo. That's due to two things. First is it's easy to play a section when I have a little bit of time and there is a certain amount of replayability since you can change your strategy.
Secondly I was running low on disk space for a long while. That meant I couldn't put one of the large games on the system. Now that I've added a new HD I'll probably be putting on some of the larger games again like Supreme Commander and Age of Empires 3. I would love to say I'll be putting Command and Conquer 4 on the system but based on what I'm hearing about the game I don't think I'll be buying it even though I played all of the previous games in the series.
Som at least for me, both short and long games are great. Which one I go for depends on how much time I have. I'll definitely be looking at Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 when they become available. Both games will take a long time to finish, but they are also broken up into short sections that probably won't take more than an hour or two to finish. That seems to be the best approach since it allows the player to maintain their progress in the game while allowing them to quit at just about any point.
I thought it was more of a horomonal thing. As in the hormones the fetus is exposed to inside the womb can alter the attraction the person would feel towards a particular sex. At least I recall reading that at some point
Okay, I haven't been through one of these border crossings but my assumption would be if the police (or border guards) are going to search my car that I should get out of the car. It's the natural assumption that they would want unfettered access to the car. It may be the wrong assumption, but it seems it would be a natural one.
A Usenet server doesn't have to handle 5 TB of traffic unless it is going to carry every newsgroup out there. It's entirely possible to get that traffic flow down to a much manageable level (probably no more than a few megabytes a day) if you only carry the text groups. Even if you want to carry binary groups you don't have to carry everything. So an admin can set the level of traffic to match what they need and not see everything coming into their server only to be dropped down the bit bucket.
Actually they have this technology already. It's on a few car models but I believe those cars are very expensive. I'm sure within 5-10 years you will see the technology work it's way down to the price range of the typical family car.
My own favorite is http://www.kcrw.com/ because of their live performances. Some great live performances in their studio in their Morning Becomes Eclectic archives
I can tell you that my main interest in SCII lies in the single player game. I don't think I ever spent more than a few hours in multiplayer mode on Star craft . It's just not interesting to me since it comes down to rushing the other player and I'm not into that. Even if I got good at it then it would just be me doing the same thing. I enjoyed multiplayer mode in Diablo/Diablo II/LOD much more than I ever did in Starcraft. I can't imagine how many hours I spent playing DII online.
That's one problem I have with the new take Blizzard has with Starcraft II. I would prefer them to release a version with all three races playable in single player mode. Then if they want to carry the story further release expansion packs that develop the story for each of the races. That isn't going to happen but it's how I would have prefered them to release the game.
I don't see a problem with XP users and exFAT since Microsoft provides it for XP. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955704
Now Mac and other OS users may have problems since exFAT isn't currently available for their OS but that will likely change should this file system take off.
How are they screwed? Any of them can choose to use one of the many other streaming sites available (Pandora, Last.fm, etc.) regardless of what happens with Imeem. Plus I'm sure all of them have their own Album/CD/MP3 collection that they can listen to should their Internet access be lost for some reason. Using a streaming music service doesn't take away from the ability to have your own music collection.
I think the same could have been said 50 years ago or even 100 years ago. Most of the population isn't that interested in reading that much whether it be a newspaper or a book. The fact that the information is even easier to get now (on the computer) doesn't seem to be changing things as the general populace seems to be as clueless as ever. So newspapers will slowly fade away due to better mechanisms becoming available like online distribution where it's easier to update stories, or one day soon we may see electronic papers where you get a sheet of a plastic like material that displays the stories and is easily updated for a small fee. Something that combines the easy access to the news with the feel of holding the paper in your hand.
Not likely as the Michele Obama picture is still available. If you go to Google images and search for Michele Obama Monkey it's the second picture that showed up for me. It looks like the picture comes from a site that modified celebrity images to look like apes and it looks like this image was made months ago. As it looks like the original site, celebrityapes.com, is off the net you can see other images that have had the same modification made to them here: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/awful-links/celebrity-apes.php
So while the image may certainly be seen as offensive to a lot of people it doesn't seem to have been meant as a racist act or particularly aimed at the Obamas as many politicians, actors and other famous people have had the same photo manipulation done to their images.
I think you may be wrong on that. It seems that the bug they are fixing is a bug in the 3.6 code as I went to the three test scripts that were mentioned in the comments and with Firefox 3.5.5 everything worked as it should. When I went to the bencamm site it was slow as expected and the slow server mentioned in the status area was the bencamm site and not Google analytics. So it looks like Firefox 3.5.5 does the right thing and Firefox 3.6 didn't do the right thing.
It's not that people want to use 100% of their available bandwidth all of the time. It's just that when they want to use their bandwidth they expect it to be there. I don't download that long. On my worst days (usually after not downloading anything for a week) I might set up downloads that take an hour or two to complete. But that's typically at times when most other people won't be using the network so it's doubtful I'm ever in competition with other people on my node. Yet thanks to this new system I'll be penalized with slower downloads even though there's no congestion on my node. That's not what Comcast talked about before. I would be okay with them instituting some throttling when there is congestion but this article doesn't mention any congestion necessary for the first throttling condition.
The difference is the law specifically prevents the telco from listening in on your calls. That limit hasn't been expanded to email at this point. It could be if you get the right judge but until it happens I suppose you have no right to privacy for your email.
I've been wondering for a while if it might not be best if large companies like Microsoft and others start setting up shop in Marshall, Texas. If enough of them do it they can change the makeup of the populace and hopefully make the place less popular for patent trolls.
I won't agree with you. I think the way to build an economy is from the top AND the bottom. So you want to put more money in the hands of consumers because in our society that tends to mean they will spend more which helps build the economy and increases employment levels. But you also want to build incentives in the system for people/corporations to invest in new products/upgrading infrastructure/new jobs. So you might lower taxes on corporations but only if the money saved goes into new jobs or upgrading existing equipment.
I have to admit the most time I ever spent on an install was installing AIX on a couple of RS6000s we had as demo machines. It was all on floppy. I think it was around 45 floppies plus additional floppies for updates. That one took a couple of days to get everything installed and working. Luckily there was no need to migrate anything since the computers were just for testing.
With Windows I can't say that any of the installs were bad, but getting all of my programs working typically takes a few days as I work through the various programs/updates and addons that I need to add. Like with Firefox I have an additional 6 addons that I would need to install if I did a clean install of Windows after I installed Firefox again.
Yes, but what if I wanted to use those three notes with an additional note to signify a new television network? Want to bet that NBC wouldn't send their lawyers after the new network?
"I really don't get why people in IT keep wanting things to be the same as they were at a specific point in time.I don't want to lug servers around for LAN parties, I don't want to have a dial-up connection to the internet and I really don't give a shit if games developers assume I have an internet connection for a multi-player game."
Perhaps you don't understand the tens of comments before yours but no one is trying to dictate how you play. If you want to play online only then go right ahead. What people have been complaining about is having an option taken away from them. That's it and I'm sure you know this. Having the option to play on a LAN doesn't stick us back in the 90s since you can still play on Battlenet with your highspeed connection while other people may choose to play on a LAN.
Just because you love playing online with a high speed connection doesn't mean everyone wants to play that way so what's wrong with having the option to play on a LAN. A LAN is a perfect environment for some friends to get together and have some fun. Maybe take a break during the day to cook up some food and relax and then get back to playing. As others have said there's a lot of enjoyment in playing a game against a friend when you can see his reaction to your taking out his best character. Also as others have said it's not always possible to be connected to the Internet even if you have a LAN setup. There are times (such as if you are playing after hours at work) or places (maybe there is no Internet connection in the room or even the building you are in) where it's just not possible to get even one computer on the Internet let alone a number of them.
I don't see why anyone would be bothered by other people wanting a LAN option to be available. It doesn't detract from the Battlenet experience, and it's something that many of us grew to love about the original Starcraft and Diablo games. I hope that Blizzard reconsiders and adds in LAN play for Starcraft II and Diablo III.
Reading through the article I suspect there's more to this than the summary says. It's a particular school at the University that is involved with how computers affect society. They are also using the Ipod for much of the communication between the students and the professors.
So the professors have a sure way of communicating with the students, and the students have a sure way to reply back to the professors. Also there's a built in way to see how having such a device affects their lives (which is part of what they study.) Finally the article also points out that they are hoping this will lead to the students developing more apps for the Iphone which might be useful for the University as well as good practice for the students. So it appears the attendance taking application is a small part of how they intend to use the Iphones.
Could you please provide me with examples of why Linux is better than Unix? Keep in mind that there are many varieties of Unix ranging from the paid kind to the free kind and that most of what people like to think of as Linux isn't really part of the OS but just open sourced programs that will run on many systems including those based on Unix.
I'm not saying that Linux is bad, just that it seems difficult to really say one is better than the other since they are so intertwined.
Well given that you have two guys there carrying guns and one of them is saying that he will tackle him if he tries to leave, and at least one other person from REI there I find it hard to call him an asshole for continuing the conversation instead of just trying to walk away. If he had tried to walk away who's to say the Loomis guy wouldn't have followed through on his threat while talking for a few minutes might have defused the situation. Given what was said and done it seems unlikely it would have worked, but I can't blame him for continuing to talk instead of walking away and risking an escalation.
I don't think I like this idea. Mostly because once something like this becomes standardized it will quickly become standard. At that point ABP will be useless as most sites will not allow users to see the site if they are blocking ads. At this point I've only run into a couple of sites that do that.
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Personally I used to play a lot of the longer games (mostly strategy types) but lately I've gotten into games that have a lot of shorter sections like Plants versus Zombies or World of Goo. That's due to two things. First is it's easy to play a section when I have a little bit of time and there is a certain amount of replayability since you can change your strategy. Secondly I was running low on disk space for a long while. That meant I couldn't put one of the large games on the system. Now that I've added a new HD I'll probably be putting on some of the larger games again like Supreme Commander and Age of Empires 3. I would love to say I'll be putting Command and Conquer 4 on the system but based on what I'm hearing about the game I don't think I'll be buying it even though I played all of the previous games in the series. Som at least for me, both short and long games are great. Which one I go for depends on how much time I have. I'll definitely be looking at Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 when they become available. Both games will take a long time to finish, but they are also broken up into short sections that probably won't take more than an hour or two to finish. That seems to be the best approach since it allows the player to maintain their progress in the game while allowing them to quit at just about any point.
I thought it was more of a horomonal thing. As in the hormones the fetus is exposed to inside the womb can alter the attraction the person would feel towards a particular sex. At least I recall reading that at some point
Okay, I haven't been through one of these border crossings but my assumption would be if the police (or border guards) are going to search my car that I should get out of the car. It's the natural assumption that they would want unfettered access to the car. It may be the wrong assumption, but it seems it would be a natural one.
A Usenet server doesn't have to handle 5 TB of traffic unless it is going to carry every newsgroup out there. It's entirely possible to get that traffic flow down to a much manageable level (probably no more than a few megabytes a day) if you only carry the text groups. Even if you want to carry binary groups you don't have to carry everything. So an admin can set the level of traffic to match what they need and not see everything coming into their server only to be dropped down the bit bucket.
Actually they have this technology already. It's on a few car models but I believe those cars are very expensive. I'm sure within 5-10 years you will see the technology work it's way down to the price range of the typical family car.
My own favorite is http://www.kcrw.com/ because of their live performances. Some great live performances in their studio in their Morning Becomes Eclectic archives
I can tell you that my main interest in SCII lies in the single player game. I don't think I ever spent more than a few hours in multiplayer mode on Star craft . It's just not interesting to me since it comes down to rushing the other player and I'm not into that. Even if I got good at it then it would just be me doing the same thing. I enjoyed multiplayer mode in Diablo/Diablo II/LOD much more than I ever did in Starcraft. I can't imagine how many hours I spent playing DII online. That's one problem I have with the new take Blizzard has with Starcraft II. I would prefer them to release a version with all three races playable in single player mode. Then if they want to carry the story further release expansion packs that develop the story for each of the races. That isn't going to happen but it's how I would have prefered them to release the game.
I don't see a problem with XP users and exFAT since Microsoft provides it for XP. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955704 Now Mac and other OS users may have problems since exFAT isn't currently available for their OS but that will likely change should this file system take off.
How are they screwed? Any of them can choose to use one of the many other streaming sites available (Pandora, Last.fm, etc.) regardless of what happens with Imeem. Plus I'm sure all of them have their own Album/CD/MP3 collection that they can listen to should their Internet access be lost for some reason. Using a streaming music service doesn't take away from the ability to have your own music collection.
I think the same could have been said 50 years ago or even 100 years ago. Most of the population isn't that interested in reading that much whether it be a newspaper or a book. The fact that the information is even easier to get now (on the computer) doesn't seem to be changing things as the general populace seems to be as clueless as ever. So newspapers will slowly fade away due to better mechanisms becoming available like online distribution where it's easier to update stories, or one day soon we may see electronic papers where you get a sheet of a plastic like material that displays the stories and is easily updated for a small fee. Something that combines the easy access to the news with the feel of holding the paper in your hand.
Not likely as the Michele Obama picture is still available. If you go to Google images and search for Michele Obama Monkey it's the second picture that showed up for me. It looks like the picture comes from a site that modified celebrity images to look like apes and it looks like this image was made months ago. As it looks like the original site, celebrityapes.com, is off the net you can see other images that have had the same modification made to them here: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/awful-links/celebrity-apes.php So while the image may certainly be seen as offensive to a lot of people it doesn't seem to have been meant as a racist act or particularly aimed at the Obamas as many politicians, actors and other famous people have had the same photo manipulation done to their images.
I think you may be wrong on that. It seems that the bug they are fixing is a bug in the 3.6 code as I went to the three test scripts that were mentioned in the comments and with Firefox 3.5.5 everything worked as it should. When I went to the bencamm site it was slow as expected and the slow server mentioned in the status area was the bencamm site and not Google analytics. So it looks like Firefox 3.5.5 does the right thing and Firefox 3.6 didn't do the right thing.
It's not that people want to use 100% of their available bandwidth all of the time. It's just that when they want to use their bandwidth they expect it to be there. I don't download that long. On my worst days (usually after not downloading anything for a week) I might set up downloads that take an hour or two to complete. But that's typically at times when most other people won't be using the network so it's doubtful I'm ever in competition with other people on my node. Yet thanks to this new system I'll be penalized with slower downloads even though there's no congestion on my node. That's not what Comcast talked about before. I would be okay with them instituting some throttling when there is congestion but this article doesn't mention any congestion necessary for the first throttling condition.
So it will probably grab Britney Spears or Paris Hilton since they always seem to be seen in skimpy clothes... That way we all win.
The difference is the law specifically prevents the telco from listening in on your calls. That limit hasn't been expanded to email at this point. It could be if you get the right judge but until it happens I suppose you have no right to privacy for your email.
I've been wondering for a while if it might not be best if large companies like Microsoft and others start setting up shop in Marshall, Texas. If enough of them do it they can change the makeup of the populace and hopefully make the place less popular for patent trolls.
I won't agree with you. I think the way to build an economy is from the top AND the bottom. So you want to put more money in the hands of consumers because in our society that tends to mean they will spend more which helps build the economy and increases employment levels. But you also want to build incentives in the system for people/corporations to invest in new products/upgrading infrastructure/new jobs. So you might lower taxes on corporations but only if the money saved goes into new jobs or upgrading existing equipment.
I have to admit the most time I ever spent on an install was installing AIX on a couple of RS6000s we had as demo machines. It was all on floppy. I think it was around 45 floppies plus additional floppies for updates. That one took a couple of days to get everything installed and working. Luckily there was no need to migrate anything since the computers were just for testing. With Windows I can't say that any of the installs were bad, but getting all of my programs working typically takes a few days as I work through the various programs/updates and addons that I need to add. Like with Firefox I have an additional 6 addons that I would need to install if I did a clean install of Windows after I installed Firefox again.
Yes, but what if I wanted to use those three notes with an additional note to signify a new television network? Want to bet that NBC wouldn't send their lawyers after the new network?
"I really don't get why people in IT keep wanting things to be the same as they were at a specific point in time.I don't want to lug servers around for LAN parties, I don't want to have a dial-up connection to the internet and I really don't give a shit if games developers assume I have an internet connection for a multi-player game." Perhaps you don't understand the tens of comments before yours but no one is trying to dictate how you play. If you want to play online only then go right ahead. What people have been complaining about is having an option taken away from them. That's it and I'm sure you know this. Having the option to play on a LAN doesn't stick us back in the 90s since you can still play on Battlenet with your highspeed connection while other people may choose to play on a LAN. Just because you love playing online with a high speed connection doesn't mean everyone wants to play that way so what's wrong with having the option to play on a LAN. A LAN is a perfect environment for some friends to get together and have some fun. Maybe take a break during the day to cook up some food and relax and then get back to playing. As others have said there's a lot of enjoyment in playing a game against a friend when you can see his reaction to your taking out his best character. Also as others have said it's not always possible to be connected to the Internet even if you have a LAN setup. There are times (such as if you are playing after hours at work) or places (maybe there is no Internet connection in the room or even the building you are in) where it's just not possible to get even one computer on the Internet let alone a number of them. I don't see why anyone would be bothered by other people wanting a LAN option to be available. It doesn't detract from the Battlenet experience, and it's something that many of us grew to love about the original Starcraft and Diablo games. I hope that Blizzard reconsiders and adds in LAN play for Starcraft II and Diablo III.
Reading through the article I suspect there's more to this than the summary says. It's a particular school at the University that is involved with how computers affect society. They are also using the Ipod for much of the communication between the students and the professors. So the professors have a sure way of communicating with the students, and the students have a sure way to reply back to the professors. Also there's a built in way to see how having such a device affects their lives (which is part of what they study.) Finally the article also points out that they are hoping this will lead to the students developing more apps for the Iphone which might be useful for the University as well as good practice for the students. So it appears the attendance taking application is a small part of how they intend to use the Iphones.
I'm seeing the same thing on Firefox under Windows XP. Not sure why it's happening but it is kind of annoying to not see the titles.
Could you please provide me with examples of why Linux is better than Unix? Keep in mind that there are many varieties of Unix ranging from the paid kind to the free kind and that most of what people like to think of as Linux isn't really part of the OS but just open sourced programs that will run on many systems including those based on Unix. I'm not saying that Linux is bad, just that it seems difficult to really say one is better than the other since they are so intertwined.
Well given that you have two guys there carrying guns and one of them is saying that he will tackle him if he tries to leave, and at least one other person from REI there I find it hard to call him an asshole for continuing the conversation instead of just trying to walk away. If he had tried to walk away who's to say the Loomis guy wouldn't have followed through on his threat while talking for a few minutes might have defused the situation. Given what was said and done it seems unlikely it would have worked, but I can't blame him for continuing to talk instead of walking away and risking an escalation.
I don't think I like this idea. Mostly because once something like this becomes standardized it will quickly become standard. At that point ABP will be useless as most sites will not allow users to see the site if they are blocking ads. At this point I've only run into a couple of sites that do that.