Additional content for sale is not a new thing on XBox Live. Dance Dance Revolution: Ultramix, which came out nearly a year ago, has had additional song packs available for $5 for a long time. As many other posters pointed out in the THQ article, a number of other games have had pay-to-download additional content on XBox Live.
I'm an Oklahoman, and I'm registered as a Republican. I had not felt a really strong urge to vote for either of the candidates in the Senate race, but I likely would've voted Coburn. Seeing that Carson has made a public statement to pursue intelligent IP laws, I will be looking closely at him. Assuming his other ideas are not insane, I will probably be voting for him.
Back in the early ninties, I bought a Commodore 64 with a box full of games and accessories. This was the one game I played the most. I was never very good at it, but I enjoyed it a lot. It was my introduction to text-based adventures and also HHGTTG. I will definately be playing this.
That's the first thing I thought when I started using it last night. It feels a whole lot like iPhoto for Windows, but it runs very good on my ole 700 MHz/128 Ram, much faster than iTunes does. I like it a lot.
Since the first time I downloaded Winamp and loaded up all of my MP3's I've always listened to my songs on shuffle. Every day I walk to and from school with my iPod on shuffle. I always felt odd, because I would read about all of these hipsters with their "playlists" and think that I was missing out on something.
I think a lot of it has to do with the difference between music that I've downloaded and music that I've bought the CD of. When you download a song, you do just that and download a single song. If you're feeling lucky, perhaps you'll try two or three songs by the same artist that you haven't heard. (I did that just the other day with the Violent Femmes) You just want to hear this single song, and you don't have the other ten or fifteen from the album, so you put it on shuffle and get this single song, followed by some other song that is the only song you have by some artist.
However, if I have a ripped CD of MP3's, then I know all the songs and want to hear them together, for the most part. I have found that if there is a song on an album and I don't like it when it comes up in shuffle, if I have been listening to just that album or just that artist, then I like it better. Perhaps it is different for different songs, and they sound better out of the context of the album.
Strangely enough, I have been thinking about moving from shuffle to a more playlist/album-centric style of listening recently after getting tired of having to forward through so many songs that I am not in the mood to hear that come up on suffle.
Yeah, it really sucks when you're filling up the tank at one of those credit card gas machines at midnight and the bugs are swarming the bright lights of the gas station. And you.
I work at the University of Oklahoma, and our department uses ghost in a similar manner to that described above. We received many new Dells this summer. We set up one the way we wanted them all to be, used sysprep to make sure everything went cleanly, then pulled the image off the machine with ghost. We then push the image over the network to all of the machines. All that remains is to go rename the machines, but we've recently come up with a batch file that can do this automatically by mac address. Ghost is good.
Well, I've never been to Vegas, but I've heard that the dry desert air plays some funny optical illusion tricks with your eyes and makes distances look much shorter than they actually are, tricking people into walking much more than they normally would. Riding a monorail beats all that exhausting physical activity any day of the week in my book.
It's always seemed pretty obvious to me (I thought Lucas had stated this before) that pulp sci-fi serials were part of what Lucas was attempting to recreate with Star Wars. Look at the titles of the movies: it's pretty obvious with "Attack of the Clones" that it's campy, but "Star Wars" has been said so many times that people just don't realize how hokey it sounds.
That doesn't mean, however, that mythology and mysticism doesn't play a large part in the movies, though. You have the Force, like Chi; Dark/Light sides of the Force, like Yin and Yang; an epic tale of one man's journey from a nobody to a somebody that "saves the world/galaxy" (with both Anakin and Luke Skywalker)... and a million other points others have touched on.
I think that even though the movies are very enjoyable and have a definite "gee-whiz" feel to them, they still have multiple layers of meaning and imagery to be deciphered however you like.
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Additional content for sale is not a new thing on XBox Live. Dance Dance Revolution: Ultramix, which came out nearly a year ago, has had additional song packs available for $5 for a long time. As many other posters pointed out in the THQ article, a number of other games have had pay-to-download additional content on XBox Live.
I'm an Oklahoman, and I'm registered as a Republican. I had not felt a really strong urge to vote for either of the candidates in the Senate race, but I likely would've voted Coburn. Seeing that Carson has made a public statement to pursue intelligent IP laws, I will be looking closely at him. Assuming his other ideas are not insane, I will probably be voting for him.
Back in the early ninties, I bought a Commodore 64 with a box full of games and accessories. This was the one game I played the most. I was never very good at it, but I enjoyed it a lot. It was my introduction to text-based adventures and also HHGTTG. I will definately be playing this.
That's the first thing I thought when I started using it last night. It feels a whole lot like iPhoto for Windows, but it runs very good on my ole 700 MHz/128 Ram, much faster than iTunes does. I like it a lot.
I think a lot of it has to do with the difference between music that I've downloaded and music that I've bought the CD of. When you download a song, you do just that and download a single song. If you're feeling lucky, perhaps you'll try two or three songs by the same artist that you haven't heard. (I did that just the other day with the Violent Femmes) You just want to hear this single song, and you don't have the other ten or fifteen from the album, so you put it on shuffle and get this single song, followed by some other song that is the only song you have by some artist.
However, if I have a ripped CD of MP3's, then I know all the songs and want to hear them together, for the most part. I have found that if there is a song on an album and I don't like it when it comes up in shuffle, if I have been listening to just that album or just that artist, then I like it better. Perhaps it is different for different songs, and they sound better out of the context of the album.
Strangely enough, I have been thinking about moving from shuffle to a more playlist/album-centric style of listening recently after getting tired of having to forward through so many songs that I am not in the mood to hear that come up on suffle.
Yeah, it really sucks when you're filling up the tank at one of those credit card gas machines at midnight and the bugs are swarming the bright lights of the gas station. And you.
And here I just bought a used Xbox for $139 last weekend.
I work at the University of Oklahoma, and our department uses ghost in a similar manner to that described above. We received many new Dells this summer. We set up one the way we wanted them all to be, used sysprep to make sure everything went cleanly, then pulled the image off the machine with ghost. We then push the image over the network to all of the machines. All that remains is to go rename the machines, but we've recently come up with a batch file that can do this automatically by mac address. Ghost is good.
Well, I've never been to Vegas, but I've heard that the dry desert air plays some funny optical illusion tricks with your eyes and makes distances look much shorter than they actually are, tricking people into walking much more than they normally would. Riding a monorail beats all that exhausting physical activity any day of the week in my book.
It's always seemed pretty obvious to me (I thought Lucas had stated this before) that pulp sci-fi serials were part of what Lucas was attempting to recreate with Star Wars. Look at the titles of the movies: it's pretty obvious with "Attack of the Clones" that it's campy, but "Star Wars" has been said so many times that people just don't realize how hokey it sounds.
That doesn't mean, however, that mythology and mysticism doesn't play a large part in the movies, though. You have the Force, like Chi; Dark/Light sides of the Force, like Yin and Yang; an epic tale of one man's journey from a nobody to a somebody that "saves the world/galaxy" (with both Anakin and Luke Skywalker)... and a million other points others have touched on.
I think that even though the movies are very enjoyable and have a definite "gee-whiz" feel to them, they still have multiple layers of meaning and imagery to be deciphered however you like.
Congratulations, CT! Good luck.