Our whole family loves playing Minecraft, although so far we've kept network play to our own server. For parents with young kids playing on the net, any recommendations for kid friendly servers? Ours are currently 5 and 7, so may be too young to consider letting them venture out on their own, but will be looking pretty soon probably.
For me, whether or not to get an iPhone all hinges on how much the data plan is going to cost. I'd gladly pay $1000 or more for a single device that could be a usable network terminal, music player, gps, and phone, but I'm not going to pay 30-70 dollars every month for the life of the device to use it.
Considering that decent home broadband is now 25-60 dollars most places here, I really can't see paying more than 5-10 dollars for the bandwidth, and maybe another $5-10 for the portable aspect. But then isn't that already built into my base cell plan? So we'll see if AT&T comes up with a reasonably priced plan or not.
I agree the quality of many new shows is very high, but tv series almost never have a satisfactory conclusion. They either get cancelled premeturely before they can be wrapped up properly, or they get such high ratings that the networks insist they get dragged out forever... the worst example being the X-Files. I fear Lost is heading that way too.
I'm really surprised that no one is taking on the one season as a 16-22 hour movie format. I would think this would finally be an opportunity to make a movie with the depth of a good novel.
To be good though, it needs a decent, well thought out conclusion.
Remember back when planning a party/gathering involved taking far too much time making sure everyone had directions to get there? Now its just "give me the address and the computer will find it". I'd say this had a genuine impact on many people's lives.
Maybe its a bad name, but when I saw it originally, I said to myself, "are these guys serious? I have to see what they're really about." I think a lot more people will think the same way...
Also this way the "piracy thing" is right there to discuss at the beginning instead of the **AA bringing it up at some other inopportune time.
That gives me an idea... Do most movies get distributed with a standard set of commercials or do the theaters tack them on on their own? It would be nice if people could start a database listing go see movie x, 24 minutes after start-time to avoid the commercials. Well I guess you would still get the tacked on local commercials, and only work in areas where movies don't always sell out, but I think the theater managers would get the hint if lots of people started doing this...
I noticed all the mcdonalds around here have speedpass in the drivethru lanes, but aren't most people going to have their speedpass on their keychain as they are driving? Seems completely useless to me...
I suspect the real server will be only 1-5 streams with a form to tell you where to send the $30,000 if you actually want to broadcast... but maybe they will surprise me... what ever happened with the quicktime petition anyway?
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Our whole family loves playing Minecraft, although so far we've kept network play to our own server. For parents with young kids playing on the net, any recommendations for kid friendly servers? Ours are currently 5 and 7, so may be too young to consider letting them venture out on their own, but will be looking pretty soon probably.
For me, whether or not to get an iPhone all hinges on how much the data plan is going to cost. I'd gladly pay $1000 or more for a single device that could be a usable network terminal, music player, gps, and phone, but I'm not going to pay 30-70 dollars every month for the life of the device to use it.
Considering that decent home broadband is now 25-60 dollars most places here, I really can't see paying more than 5-10 dollars for the bandwidth, and maybe another $5-10 for the portable aspect. But then isn't that already built into my base cell plan? So we'll see if AT&T comes up with a reasonably priced plan or not.
Sounds like the Reactable synthesizer. Cool demo video here. The original looks way more fun than checking into a hotel too...
I agree the quality of many new shows is very high, but tv series almost never have a satisfactory conclusion. They either get cancelled premeturely before they can be wrapped up properly, or they get such high ratings that the networks insist they get dragged out forever... the worst example being the X-Files. I fear Lost is heading that way too.
I'm really surprised that no one is taking on the one season as a 16-22 hour movie format. I would think this would finally be an opportunity to make a movie with the depth of a good novel.
To be good though, it needs a decent, well thought out conclusion.
Remember back when planning a party/gathering involved taking far too much time making sure everyone had directions to get there? Now its just "give me the address and the computer will find it". I'd say this had a genuine impact on many people's lives.
Maybe its a bad name, but when I saw it originally, I said to myself, "are these guys serious? I have to see what they're really about." I think a lot more people will think the same way...
Also this way the "piracy thing" is right there to discuss at the beginning instead of the **AA bringing it up at some other inopportune time.
They did... its called Grid Computing...
That gives me an idea... Do most movies get distributed with a standard set of commercials or do the theaters tack them on on their own? It would be nice if people could start a database listing go see movie x, 24 minutes after start-time to avoid the commercials. Well I guess you would still get the tacked on local commercials, and only work in areas where movies don't always sell out, but I think the theater managers would get the hint if lots of people started doing this...
I noticed all the mcdonalds around here have speedpass in the drivethru lanes, but aren't most people going to have their speedpass on their keychain as they are driving? Seems completely useless to me...
I suspect the real server will be only 1-5 streams with a form to tell you where to send the $30,000 if you actually want to broadcast... but maybe they will surprise me... what ever happened with the quicktime petition anyway?