When I first started playing UO it was fun at first but then it got boring, chopping wood, mining, etc. So, I started interacting with the player controlled characters more. Like pick pocketing, PKing, etc. Then I found that B&E was much more fun. I could hide (become invis), a skill that I was a master at, and wait in front of a door of a users house then when they opened the door I could run in, thus revealing myself. Generally a battle would start with the most likely outcome of my character dying. This was OK with me because I knew if I waited until they left to revive then I would revive inside their house. Then, with the help of friends, we would empty all their possessions. We completely packed a tower doing this. Later they changed the code so this was not possible. I was still able to do this by having larger groups hiding making sure we could kill the person once they opened the door. Again they changed the code. They eventually changed the code so much that the game was unrealistic and became boring for all except those that didn't mind spending mind numbing hours mining or chopping trees.
I don't think it was wrong to do it... Heck they had the same opportunity to do it to me or anyone else.
I don't know about you but I would not use any mouse that came bundled with a system... they all suck. I have OS X and the first thing I did was run to Comp USA and purchase a Logitech optical 3 button wheel mouse. Guess what? All the buttons and wheels and everything works the same as they do on wintel machines.
P.S.
I have a never used one button USB mouse for sale *lol*
I won't switch from 10.2 to 10.3 unless it's a free upgrade for those, like me, who shelled out for 10.2. I'll wait till 11.0 if it has some real advantadges.
"Please note: There is no monthly fee for the Channel Guide service. Local access numbers are available in most areas: however, telephone charges may apply in certain areas. If you have a question, please call the Panasonic Call Center at 1-888-843-9788 or email consumerproducts@panasonic.com"
To me that clearly indicates Panasonic's responsibility to provide the GUIDE? I called the number and they stated that zap2it.com was responsible for the guide data. Sounds like passing the buck to me!
I purchased a Replay TV 4040 when it was bleeding edge. Now what? Am I screwed? Seems like if they stop providing the guide, with no way to get the software to use another guide they are not providing the service I paid for! Can we sue? I'm sure there will be tons of unhappy people if they just turn it off.
The pictures can be taken anywhere and then sent to the overhead / website afterwards... with that in mind think of the stuff that could be posted! *yikes*
Soundblaster used to be my sound card of choice but now that I have moved to Mac w/ OS X i am amazed that they do not support it. If I buy another Windows PC I surely would pass on Soundblaster because of their lack of driver support.
I mean really? We are a part of nature so doesn't it follow that anything we do is a part of nature. It seems ridiculous to think that man is somehow above nature. Some people think because it is man made that is is somehow unnatural. Is a bird nest unatural because a bird made it?
I wonder if you get a static IP on a personal account. If you are on a business account do you get multiple IP addresses? How many? For this price I would not be suprised to see a bunch of web hosting companies spring up there.
I could see driving through a McDonalds picking up a quick bite then parking and connecting to the Internet from my car. This would only work if EVERY McDonalds had this service.
10: Too Many are Being Built 9: It Requires a Mastery of Too Many Disciplines 8: A Huge Team is Required 7: Getting a Credit Card from a Customer is Hard 6: The Online Industry is Counter-Intuitive to Packaged-Goods Company Management 5: Everything You Know about Single-Player Games is Wrong 4: The Internet Sucks as a Commercial Delivery Platform 3: Customer Service is Hard 2: There are Lots of Legal Issues 1: They Cost Too Much money to Build and Launch!
Why can't it be setup like current digital signatures?
1) Walk into bank and use their equipment to scan your eye and from that information create a public / private key pair. Essentially your eye would be the private key, and you would hand over your public key to the bank.
2) The bank could then use your public key to encrypt your PIN, or whatever else they wanted to protect.
3) When you approach the ATM and scan your eye it uses the scan to decrypt your PIN thus giving you access to your account.
For me the beauty of this is that the bank can't even get at the information once it has been encrypted. Of course it would have to be against the rules, if not the law, to store someone's scan.
Well for some vendors it is important for them to know what the stock is. For example the Frito Lay guy. Frito Lay puts chips in your store on consignment.. heck If I run a store I would love for him to know when supplies are running short.
If people had a signed XBOX linux, or any alternative OS then people could develop games based on that OS, completly eliminating the need for Microsoft's signatures.
That's not exactly acurate. It would be more accurate to say that Microsoft knowingly corrupted Java while under license with Sun and as part of the relief Microsoft has to include Java.
I don't think this search deal is anything like the MS / Sun case. Except for the president of search king and Bill gates are both idiots.
My understanding is that the Itaniums do not contain a 32bit instruction set. That being true then if it were released today on PC motherboards it would most likely not have an operating system to run on. You could run Linux but not M$ Windows. Now to this crowd that might sound nice but to the masses it would be useless. AMD's hammer does have backward compatibility to the 32bit X86 instruction set... so one could run M$ Windows 32 bit until there was a 64 bit version and still use that machine to run enhanced 64bit applications and/or operating systems.
Just my 2cents...
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I have thought about your comments before and the best thing that I can think of is that what humans are doing is stalling evolution of our species except for the development of our minds. That is a scary thought when you consider that "the masses are asses".
I've had asked this question before but never received a good answer.
If man creates a new life form by definition man is the "Creator" of that life form. If somehow in a distance future man builds on this knowledge and creates an intelligent life form, from scratch, would man be it's "Creator"? If so, could one say that man is it's God?
This was touched upon in the Deep Space 9 trek series. The Dominan (sp?) created two life forms and the life forms acknowledged their "Creators" as their God.
I have been working on the core functionality of a Linux set top box for a while now and I am to the point I need to develop a GUI but I flat refuse to use XWindows.. spam on but XWindows BLOWS. Esp when used in a specific application such as this. Are there any alternatives??
Well I was a Amiga Fanatic and for a long time I held out hope, against all odds, that it would be revived somehow. I have never been happy with any machine since until I purchased my Dual G4 running Mac OS X.
I used to be a Mac bigot with my bigest complaint being their total lack of a shell. I mean come on even windblows has DOS right? But now we have the hands down winner GUI (OS X) combined with the hands down winner CLI (UNIX). How can it be wrong.
Plus I get the same kind of feeling working with my Mac that I did with the Amiga. So, I like to think in a way that part of Amiga lives on in Mac. But that's just my experience.
The people that are spouting about the G5 being Motorola have forgotten or never realized that the G3 is an IBM chip. Apple could call this G5 or anything else they wanted.
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When I first started playing UO it was fun at first but then it got boring, chopping wood, mining, etc. So, I started interacting with the player controlled characters more. Like pick pocketing, PKing, etc. Then I found that B&E was much more fun. I could hide (become invis), a skill that I was a master at, and wait in front of a door of a users house then when they opened the door I could run in, thus revealing myself. Generally a battle would start with the most likely outcome of my character dying. This was OK with me because I knew if I waited until they left to revive then I would revive inside their house. Then, with the help of friends, we would empty all their possessions. We completely packed a tower doing this. Later they changed the code so this was not possible. I was still able to do this by having larger groups hiding making sure we could kill the person once they opened the door. Again they changed the code. They eventually changed the code so much that the game was unrealistic and became boring for all except those that didn't mind spending mind numbing hours mining or chopping trees.
I don't think it was wrong to do it... Heck they had the same opportunity to do it to me or anyone else.
Nick Powers
It is impossible to transcend the laws of nature. You can only determine that your understanding of nature has changed.
Nick Powers
I don't know about you but I would not use any mouse that came bundled with a system... they all suck. I have OS X and the first thing I did was run to Comp USA and purchase a Logitech optical 3 button wheel mouse. Guess what? All the buttons and wheels and everything works the same as they do on wintel machines.
P.S.
I have a never used one button USB mouse for sale *lol*
Nick Powers
I won't switch from 10.2 to 10.3 unless it's a free upgrade for those, like me, who shelled out for 10.2. I'll wait till 11.0 if it has some real advantadges.
Nick Powers
On the box it states:
"Please note: There is no monthly fee for the Channel Guide service. Local access numbers are available in most areas: however, telephone charges may apply in certain areas. If you have a question, please call the Panasonic Call Center at 1-888-843-9788 or email consumerproducts@panasonic.com"
To me that clearly indicates Panasonic's responsibility to provide the GUIDE? I called the number and they stated that zap2it.com was responsible for the guide data. Sounds like passing the buck to me!
Nick Powers
I purchased a Replay TV 4040 when it was bleeding edge. Now what? Am I screwed? Seems like if they stop providing the guide, with no way to get the software to use another guide they are not providing the service I paid for! Can we sue? I'm sure there will be tons of unhappy people if they just turn it off.
Nick Powers
The pictures can be taken anywhere and then sent to the overhead / website afterwards... with that in mind think of the stuff that could be posted! *yikes*
Nick Powers
Soundblaster used to be my sound card of choice but now that I have moved to Mac w/ OS X i am amazed that they do not support it. If I buy another Windows PC I surely would pass on Soundblaster because of their lack of driver support.
Nick Powers
I mean really? We are a part of nature so doesn't it follow that anything we do is a part of nature. It seems ridiculous to think that man is somehow above nature. Some people think because it is man made that is is somehow unnatural. Is a bird nest unatural because a bird made it?
Nick Powers
I wonder if you get a static IP on a personal account. If you are on a business account do you get multiple IP addresses? How many? For this price I would not be suprised to see a bunch of web hosting companies spring up there.
hmmmm...
Nick Powers
I could see driving through a McDonalds picking up a quick bite then parking and connecting to the Internet from my car. This would only work if EVERY McDonalds had this service.
Nick Powers
10: Too Many are Being Built
9: It Requires a Mastery of Too Many Disciplines
8: A Huge Team is Required
7: Getting a Credit Card from a Customer is Hard
6: The Online Industry is Counter-Intuitive to Packaged-Goods Company Management
5: Everything You Know about Single-Player Games is Wrong
4: The Internet Sucks as a Commercial Delivery Platform
3: Customer Service is Hard
2: There are Lots of Legal Issues
1: They Cost Too Much money to Build and Launch!
0: WHA WHA WHA!
Nick Powers
Why can't it be setup like current digital signatures?
1) Walk into bank and use their equipment to scan your eye and from that information create a public / private key pair. Essentially your eye would be the private key, and you would hand over your public key to the bank.
2) The bank could then use your public key to encrypt your PIN, or whatever else they wanted to protect.
3) When you approach the ATM and scan your eye it uses the scan to decrypt your PIN thus giving you access to your account.
For me the beauty of this is that the bank can't even get at the information once it has been encrypted. Of course it would have to be against the rules, if not the law, to store someone's scan.
Am I missing something here?
Nick Powers
*lol*
Well for some vendors it is important for them to know what the stock is. For example the Frito Lay guy. Frito Lay puts chips in your store on consignment.. heck If I run a store I would love for him to know when supplies are running short.
If people had a signed XBOX linux, or any alternative OS then people could develop games based on that OS, completly eliminating the need for Microsoft's signatures.
Nick Powers
That is easy, as soon as someone implements Rendezvous, seeing how it is open source... I love Apple!
Nick Powers
I'ts just like this whole ethernet thing... it's just a fad! I'm sticking with Dr DOS and LapLink!
Nick Powers
That's not exactly acurate. It would be more accurate to say that Microsoft knowingly corrupted Java while under license with Sun and as part of the relief Microsoft has to include Java.
I don't think this search deal is anything like the MS / Sun case. Except for the president of search king and Bill gates are both idiots.
Well,
My understanding is that the Itaniums do not contain a 32bit instruction set. That being true then if it were released today on PC motherboards it would most likely not have an operating system to run on. You could run Linux but not M$ Windows. Now to this crowd that might sound nice but to the masses it would be useless. AMD's hammer does have backward compatibility to the 32bit X86 instruction set... so one could run M$ Windows 32 bit until there was a 64 bit version and still use that machine to run enhanced 64bit applications and/or operating systems.
Just my 2cents...
Nick Powers
I have thought about your comments before and the best thing that I can think of is that what humans are doing is stalling evolution of our species except for the development of our minds. That is a scary thought when you consider that "the masses are asses".
I've had asked this question before but never received a good answer.
If man creates a new life form by definition man is the "Creator" of that life form. If somehow in a distance future man builds on this knowledge and creates an intelligent life form, from scratch, would man be it's "Creator"? If so, could one say that man is it's God?
This was touched upon in the Deep Space 9 trek series. The Dominan (sp?) created two life forms and the life forms acknowledged their "Creators" as their God.
Who knows?
Nick Powers
I have been working on the core functionality of a Linux set top box for a while now and I am to the point I need to develop a GUI but I flat refuse to use XWindows.. spam on but XWindows BLOWS. Esp when used in a specific application such as this. Are there any alternatives??
Thanks for any info!
Nick Powers
Well I was a Amiga Fanatic and for a long time I held out hope, against all odds, that it would be revived somehow. I have never been happy with any machine since until I purchased my Dual G4 running Mac OS X.
I used to be a Mac bigot with my bigest complaint being their total lack of a shell. I mean come on even windblows has DOS right? But now we have the hands down winner GUI (OS X) combined with the hands down winner CLI (UNIX). How can it be wrong.
Plus I get the same kind of feeling working with my Mac that I did with the Amiga. So, I like to think in a way that part of Amiga lives on in Mac. But that's just my experience.
Nick Powers
The people that are spouting about the G5 being Motorola have forgotten or never realized that the G3 is an IBM chip. Apple could call this G5 or anything else they wanted.